disk i/o spiking suddenly

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disk i/o spiking suddenly

hi

i've been working on logic express fine for a few months and now suddenly while working a new song the disk i/o is maxing out ridiculously and i'm getting disk too slow error and not being able to play or record or anything. i've hardly got any trax or plugins running, and the intensive stuff is frozen. any ideas?

i've just added a 250gb external hard drive (usb) where all the audio files are being stored, but it's been running ok for the past two weeks with this set-up, and now it's just seemingly gone weird. i've run maintenance scripts and defragged the disk etc, but no avail. any help appreciated.

g4 powermac 1.4ghz
1.5 gig ram
osx 10.3.9
delta audiophile 2496
i/0 buffer size 512
process buffer range large

apple g4 powermac, Mac OS X (10.3.9), 1.4 ghz processor, 1.5 gb ram

Posted on May 17, 2006 12:33 PM

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drbaker Author

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May 17, 2006 12:47 PM in response to drbaker

ok, i've checked some older songs and they're working ok, so it's something to do with the track i'm working on, must be a stray plugin or something, dont suppose you guys will be able to help as it seems specific to the track i'm working on. still, any ideas would be appreciated. thanks

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drbaker Author

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May 17, 2006 12:50 PM in response to drbaker

ok, looks like korg legacy was screwing it up for some reason - sorry, i should fiddle before i post! (tho it was working fine before, so god only knows why it weirds out on me now...)

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drbaker Author

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May 17, 2006 1:24 PM in response to drbaker

spoke too soon. still getting disk too slow. no rhyme or reason seemingly. everything's frozen save for two audio trax, one running guitar rig, and that's it. help!

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drbaker Author

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May 17, 2006 1:54 PM in response to drbaker

god sorry for all these additions, i'm a useless forum poster. ok so i froze every track and i'm still getting the error, so something is wrong that minimizing the cpu load isnt fixing. i've played around the buffer size and all the other stuff that's bene posted on this forum but to no avail. anyone know what i can do? this is a new problem that's come out of the blue, usually my g4 can handle some serious workload.

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