Slow system…

[Steve Connor]

What drive are you using? What footage are you working with? Are your playback prefs set to “better performance”?

Steve Connor
‘It’s just my opinion, with an occasional fact thrown in for good measure”

[Olly Lawer]

I swapped to firewire 800 from my drive to a 400 – 800 converter on my Mac and seems to work fine now. Strange. I suppose essentially it is now running as firewire 800.

Olly Lawer

[Bret Williams]

I thought iMacs max out at 16gigs of RAM? At least that what the Apple specs are.

[Jason Jenkins]

[Bret Williams] “I thought iMacs max out at 16gigs of RAM? At least that what the Apple specs are.”

OWC has a 32 GB upgrade for the newer ones.

Jason Jenkins
Flowmotion Media
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[Steve Modica]

One way to debug stuff like this is to open a terminal and run iosnoop:

$ sudo iosnoop -D

You’ll see a ton of stuff like this:

409 502 58833 R 141752216 28672 Preview ??/MacOS/Preview
603 502 58833 R 141749976 53248 Preview ??/MacOS/Preview
459 502 58833 R 141749736 24576 Preview ??/MacOS/Preview
264 502 58833 R 141752360 4096 Preview ??/MacOS/Preview
400 502 58833 R 177961592 24576 Preview ??/A/MediaUI/..namedfork/rsrc
286 502 58833 R 175560496 4096 Preview ??/Fonts/Noteworthy.ttc/..namedfork/rsrc
273 502 58833 R 178331992 4096 Preview ??/Resources/TB_contentAndThumbs.pdf/..namedfork/rsrc
294 502 58833 R 178332488 8192 Preview ??/Resources/TB_zoomOut.pdf/..namedfork/rsrc
318 502 58833 R 141749624 8192 Preview ??/MacOS/Preview

This shows you what’s being read from where. Column 6 is the IO size. Column 7 is the app and column 8 is the filename. You can use this to be sure there’s nothing funny going on. The first column is the time (in usecs) that it took to complete the IO.

Steve

Steve Modica
CTO, Small Tree Communications

[Bret Williams]

Considering the 16gigs I have only cost $70, I assume the 32gug would be around $175? Ill have to check it out. I have the 27″ i7 with the 2gig 6970m. RAM is about the only way to make it better. And yep, AE could sure use it. But it could use a Ray tracing graphics card even more.