[tju85]

Here is the problem. I had only been able to get about 3-4 tracks at a time, with 4 plug in effects on each track, and then Logic would say "System Overload" or w/e it says.

My computer specs were:

Apple iMac 20" 2.1gHz G5, PowerPC
1GB Ram

Logic Studio 8


I recently bought more ram for it, so now I have 2.5GB ram, thinking this would solve the problem.

When I installed the ram tonight, the computer added the Ram, and it says I have 2.5GB, but my computer doesn't feel any faster at all. I opened up a project I had been working on in Logic, and sure enough, the exact same thing happened.

In the bottom right corner of the Logic screen it has two meters, CPU and HD.

The HD is always barely moving to the right at all, and the CPU is 3/4 of the way, and usually turning red.

I thought adding more ram would solve this. Was I wrong?

[mduell]

Sounds like you're CPU bound. No amount of memory is going to fix that.

RAM lets you run more apps/open more files without having to use virtual memory. It will only make your computer feel faster if you didn't have enough of it to begin with.

[mfbernstein]

Look at Activity Monitor. See how much memory is actually in use, and whether or not there are a significant number of page-ins/page-outs. That'll tell you how much memory is a bottleneck.

[peeb]

RAM will make it faster IF the problem is that the computer is swapping from memory to disk too much, not otherwise.