CPU spike, Disk is too slow or System Overload -Logic Pro X Yosemite

Hello all,

I've been digging for a while and have yet to find a solution to my problem.

I recently upgraded my system and I've run into a frustrating snag.

I'm getting a "disk is too slow or system overload" error message, when pretty much nothing is going on in the session.

I first started seeing this in a dense session from my old computer that I brought across to see how my new computer would handle it in comparison. Initially it worked and then I started to get the error message at different points in the song, and not necessarily the same spots, or even CPU intensive sections.

I tried freezing, bypassing, taking plugins off, etc.. that didn't work. I was able to bounce from the session without any problems, so I just did an export all on all 60 tracks just to test them free of plugins in a brand new session. I brought the tracks into a clean session without any plugins on the tracks, buses or the master. Drum roll......still getting the **** error message, there's very little processing happening, and then there's a giant spike one of the 24 cores and the disk i/0 and then the message. So weird!! And incredibly frustrating, as I'm now seeing this pop up in other sessions. I've only recently started working off of my new set-up and this error has me worried that I just dropped a big chunk of cash only to be handcuffed by this glitch. Please help, I've got work on the go, and I'm afraid that this could pop up at any moment.

My new computer is a

Mac Pro (Late 2013)

2.7ghz 12 core Intel Xeon E5

64GB ram

1TB internal flash drive with 600gb free (I have Logic and NI and most of my software installed on this drive)

Thunderbolt 2 Lacie 5big configured to raid6 with about 5 tb free (this is my audio record drive and where my samples/loops and extraneous software lives).

I'm running Yosemite 10.10.1 and Logic 10.1.0

I have an apollo twin for my soundcard also thunderbolt

As far as I can tell there shouldn't be any hang up speed wise anywhere in my set-up, but then again this is a new upgrade for me, and I'm not familiar with any of the pitfalls. I have two composer friends who have seen this issue with similar set-ups and none of us have been able to figure it out yet.

Hopefully one of you has the answers, or at least some idea. Please let me know if anyone else out there has come across this issue in the current OS and Logic X, any insight would be helpful.

Thanks!

Logic Pro X, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)

Posted on Jan 30, 2015 3:58 PM

18 replies

Feb 9, 2015 6:44 PM in response to pistolproductions

There are a few things that stand out from looking quickly through your report..

1) You have an audio router installed (Rogue Amoeba's Audio Hijack maybe?) Unless you really need this, remove it as often Audio Routers lead to instability of conflicts with other Audio drivers/devices when used with a DAW

2) Its not just Logic that is crashing on your Mac... Kodi is crashing... Sharemessages... and a major Coreaudio crash... all have happened in the last couple of days let alone the single Logic crash and the two Logic hangs... Which probably means its something else external to Logic thats causing the hangs or something you are using with Logic....

3) There are things running in the background that will eat up resources and slow down your Mac to a degree.. and maybe even cause some of the hangs.. Things like CleverFiles Disk Drill/DiskCK.... Intego backup Assistant... Wuala iCloud backup (Lacie), CleanMyMac and so on.....

4) You are using an Akai EIE, for which the drivers are renowned for being unstable and immature even at this stage in it's development life... There are several reports around about the latest v3.2.0 drivers being somewhat flaky under Yosemite still.... causing issues with Coreaudio crashing and hangs unfortunately (Again, another symptom you are having it seems)

5).. and to round it off, you are using the Mac version of EastWest Software too.. I gave up on EWQL's Play/Server stuff a while ago on the Mac.. In fact I run Play on a PC now, slaved to my main Mac via VEP5 simply because I found EWQL Mac stuff so unstable and performance draining on my Mac system, compared to the Windows version.. without any real fixes or improvements coming for the Mac from them over the years...

So.. my advice, for what it's worth, would be... Maybe it's time for a good clean up of your Mac, getting rid of and uninstalling anything you don't really need or use or anything that isn't of any benefit to a Mac used for DAW work.... Use re-runs of the Etrecheck report to ensure you have correctly and fully uninstalled whatever you are trying to remove... and then test and se if there is any improvement in Logic's stability and performance.

Good luck and fingers crossed for you!

Nigel

Jun 25, 2016 6:52 AM in response to Cancel Winter

WHAT HELPED ME THE MOST AND RESOLVED IT FOR ME, AFTER TRYING EVERYTHING! - go to Logic Pro-> Preferences -> Audio and change the multithreading to 'Playback Tracks'. This distributed the high CPU load off one core which was causing me to peak every 5 seconds. TRY IT and GOOD LUCK!!

Nov 14, 2016 2:38 AM in response to The Art Of Sound

what exactly does this command do to my system..? I want to try it. Im having continuous probelms with spikes in logic pro x . on 10.11.6 on a loaded macbook pro mid 2015 retina.

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