Ram Use Goes Down During Sessions Using GP

General discussion about Gig Performer
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I am curious. I have noticed that when I first open up GP and check my Task Manager, ram seems to at its highest, as high as 76% I think.

Lately I have been checking periodically at different times and at other times (I think after using GP for some time) ram use shows as much lower, I think on a number of occasions it has been 46%.

Is this expected? At the risk of highlighting my ignorance I could throw out theories (it is slowly releasing ram used for something else, like email or internet browser). (By the way, I do not generally use this computer for checking email or browsing the internet, but if I am installing a new soft synth/sample library it may be necessary (or least the a reasonable way to do it).

2

Are you using predictive load?

3

Nope.

4

I also observed what you describe, so I guess that like me, you are under Win, right? Funny Win things… :thinking:

5

Maybe it’s some effect of “Memory compression” which can be seen in the taskmanager’s resource monitor?

6

Yes, this is expected and should be same for both Windows and macOS. There was a discussion that explained this behavior, but I cannot find this thread using the Search feature.

7

Yes, Windows OS. :slight_smile:

8

Meh - sounds like Windows doing memory management, swapping pages out when it decides they’re not needed any more.