[OT] Mac Beach Ball Party (or welcome to hell, here's your mac)

stephen barncard stephenREVOLUTION2 at barncard.com
Fri May 11 18:59:05 EDT 2012


I always have separated data and media from 'business logic'.  For many
years. I use a bank of firewire externals, 3 of those Newer Technologies
fire 800 'toasters' and a NITRO AV firewire 800 8 port hub.

But my problems haven't been with Final Cut or PT HD, it's been simple text
stuff like Safari and Chrome on gmail and Facebook, which had always been
no problem on this aluminum melting monster.

On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Bob Sneidar <bobs at twft.com> wrote:

> You mention running Final Cut 7. Not to tell you your business, but you
> should use a scratch disk and data disk that is not the boot OS drive. Just
> a thot. The extra RAM for FC is probably a good idea.
>
> Bob
>
>
> On May 11, 2012, at 3:10 PM, stephen barncard wrote:
>
> > too late. I took the red pill.  I know it's his job to sell ram, but he
> had
> > good advice, imho.
> >
> > Hey, it didn't cost that much, and if it helps PT HD and Final Cut 7, I'm
> > really ok with that.
> >
> > The big question is - this machine was running far better when I
> installed
> > Lion a few months ago than now. Software that changes.
> >
> > In the olden OS9 days, '*defragmenting*' the drive usually helped a lot
> but
> > I don't see anything recommending that with OSX. Surely that still
> happens
> > as files are created and destroyed.
> >
> > sqb
> >
> > On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Peter Haworth <pete at lcsql.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I think it's gonna be dependant on what apps you are running.  Stephen
> >> mentioned he's running Pro Tools HD and that uses a LOT of RAM.
> >> Pete
> >> lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Tim Jones <tolistim at me.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Uhhh - that sounds fishy.  I run a stable of Lion-based (and a couple
> of
> >>> ML-based tester) Mac Pro's with 4GB each and they run everything that I
> >>> throw at them, so your "memory expert" sounds like he's trying to sell
> >> you
> >>> more RAM (and that IS his job...).
> >>>
> >>> The only systems that I've bumped to 8GB and 16GB are a pair of VMWare
> >>> test platforms and our video editing monster (8 procs, 16GB).
> >>>
> >>> I really suspect that throwing more RAM at this isn't going to be your
> >>> answer.
> >>>
> >>> Tim
> >>>
> >>> On May 11, 2012, at 2:12 PM, stephen barncard wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> thanks Scott. I'll do that,
> >>>>
> >>>> UPDATE
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm really not happy to completely reinstall here, I don't think that
> >>> will fix things permanently.
> >>>> I gave a call to my favorite RAM company RAMJET, and their memory
> >> expert
> >>> told me that the Mac Pro on Lion REALLY needs more than the 6 stock
> gigs
> >>> installed (!) and suggested I get a 3-stick upgrade of 4 gb modules  to
> >> get
> >>> up to 15 gigs, so I ordered them and we'll see how that works out. I
> will
> >>> never fully understand memory math and why these have to work in
> threes -
> >>> (is it the 64 bits?) -- currently there are 6  1 gig sticks, with two
> >> open
> >>> slots.  I will lose one of the 1 gig sticks, so the total goes to 15g.
> >>>>
> >>>> William Gibson had no idea about how astronomical ram size would go.
> >>> None of us did.
> >>>>
> >>>> I will report back
> >>>
> >>>
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> >
> > --
> >
> >
> >
> > Stephen Barncard
> > San Francisco Ca. USA
> >
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