Any way to effectively clear processes to eliminate competition with a digital audio workstation?

[jblonigan]

Hey guys,

So I run ableton live 9 (digital audio workstation) on my laptop and I have been running into an issue. When I do a fresh boot of my computer and ableton is the first thing I fire up it works great, I can run a ton of vsts and I get no clipping or stuttering and its perfect. However, when I do some other work on my computer and then try and go back to working on a project it struggles, mainly the more intense synths (serum, massive) that require a lot of processing power. I max out the processor and I get stuttering and clipping pretty bad. I could just do a quick shutdown and reboot to start fresh but I was wondering if there is another way? Any way I can completely end all non-startup processes that are lingering in the background with some sort of command or program?
Thanks.

 

[Pinhedd]

Hey guys,

So I run ableton live 9 (digital audio workstation) on my laptop and I have been running into an issue. When I do a fresh boot of my computer and ableton is the first thing I fire up it works great, I can run a ton of vsts and I get no clipping or stuttering and its perfect. However, when I do some other work on my computer and then try and go back to working on a project it struggles, mainly the more intense synths (serum, massive) that require a lot of processing power. I max out the processor and I get stuttering and clipping pretty bad. I could just do a quick shutdown and reboot to start fresh but I was wondering if there is another way? Any way I can completely end all non-startup processes that are lingering in the background with some sort of command or program?
Thanks.

What you describe really shouldn't be happening. Modern operating systems don't get "cluttered" to the point that they need to be rebooted in order to free up resources. Heck, I probably restart my computer once every few months whenever a new driver or security update is released. Start-up and background processes, while numerous, are incredibly light on resources; they usually just sit there doing nothing, waiting for something to wake them up.

Post your system specs, and take a look at how much memory is being used over time. If it keeps going up until it caps out, you might have a buggy driver that's leaking kernel memory; this is one thing that can only be resolved by rebooting the computer.

 

[jblonigan]

Hey guys,

So I run ableton live 9 (digital audio workstation) on my laptop and I have been running into an issue. When I do a fresh boot of my computer and ableton is the first thing I fire up it works great, I can run a ton of vsts and I get no clipping or stuttering and its perfect. However, when I do some other work on my computer and then try and go back to working on a project it struggles, mainly the more intense synths (serum, massive) that require a lot of processing power. I max out the processor and I get stuttering and clipping pretty bad. I could just do a quick shutdown and reboot to start fresh but I was wondering if there is another way? Any way I can completely end all non-startup processes that are lingering in the background with some sort of command or program?
Thanks.

What you describe really shouldn't be happening. Modern operating systems don't get "cluttered" to the point that they need to be rebooted in order to free up resources. Heck, I probably restart my computer once every few months whenever a new driver or security update is released. Start-up and background processes, while numerous, are incredibly light on resources; they usually just sit there doing nothing, waiting for something to wake them up.

Post your system specs, and take a look at how much memory is being used over time. If it keeps going up until it caps out, you might have a buggy driver that's leaking kernel memory; this is one thing that can only be resolved by rebooting the computer.

So the interesting thing is when I have the task manager open when I am getting the artifacts due to a high cpu load, the cpu percentage never goes over 20%, but the memory is at 60% and stays stable no matter what is going on in my daw.
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