Performance ??
Greeting,
May question is related to capture performance w/P25 and Canon Mark II. I have a G5 running 10.3.9 with 2.5 gigs of ram, and 3 internal drives and 1 Photoshop 30 gig scratch partition. THE internal drives are as follows, factory Apple 5400 rpm, 2 Maxtor 200 Gig Maxline 7200 rpm 16meg cache SATA drives. One of them has the 30 gig scratch partition. C1 pro 3.7 full not the beta.
I understand that was shooting to a internal or external raid will speed thing up, I was wondering when capturing teathed to the G5 will I get a performance boot if I shoot to the other internal drive vs. the main drive that has the Mac OS system it?
May question is related to capture performance w/P25 and Canon Mark II. I have a G5 running 10.3.9 with 2.5 gigs of ram, and 3 internal drives and 1 Photoshop 30 gig scratch partition. THE internal drives are as follows, factory Apple 5400 rpm, 2 Maxtor 200 Gig Maxline 7200 rpm 16meg cache SATA drives. One of them has the 30 gig scratch partition. C1 pro 3.7 full not the beta.
I understand that was shooting to a internal or external raid will speed thing up, I was wondering when capturing teathed to the G5 will I get a performance boot if I shoot to the other internal drive vs. the main drive that has the Mac OS system it?
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In my experiance it does not but I am sure there is other in this forum that could share experiances with you. 0 -
I am using capture one 3.7 with tiger. i have many P25 files that I am working on in a session (500- P25 images from a shoot in Yellowstone na. pk. last week). Capture one is painfully SLOW, expecially when I am using curves. The fan on my computer will speed up (I guess the processor is being pushed to the limit??--and I will have to sit and wait and wait for Capture One to make a simple curve change for instance.)
I have emptied the cache files in my library folder to see if that would help...it didn't. Without going into a lot of specifics, I am on the fastest Mac G5 made today--dual processors, 4 gig of RAM...top of the line machine.
Any suggestions to speed things up?? Thanks, Eleanor Brown0 -
The simplest thing to do is have at least a 7200 or better yet, a 10,000 rpm boot drive. Doing RAID requires tedious and expert level drive maintenance. 0 -
[quote="eleanorbrown" wrote:
The fan on my computer will speed up (I guess the processor is being pushed to the limit??--and I will have to sit and wait and wait for Capture One to make a simple curve change for instance.)
You have a little but great soft cee pee you that gives you an idea of the use of the processor :
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/morei ... 546&page=2
bests
Denis0 -
[quote="eleanorbrown" wrote:
The fan on my computer will speed up (I guess the processor is being pushed to the limit??--and I will have to sit and wait and wait for Capture One to make a simple curve change for instance.)
I have emptied the cache files in my library folder to see if that would help...it didn't. Without going into a lot of specifics, I am on the fastest Mac G5 made today--dual processors, 4 gig of RAM...top of the line machine.
Any suggestions to speed things up?? Thanks, Eleanor Brown
Without knowing the specifics of what's on your boot drive, and how meticulous you are about drive maintenance, it is hard to comment. I store no data on my boot drive. This does two things. It makes OSX drive maintenance much simpler, and leaves boo-koo free space for the OSX page-in/page-out functions that it needs to do (akin to OS9 virtual memory). Conventional wisdom was to leave 10% free space for this, but new wisdom is to have 50% free space. Also, turn off file sharing. Leaving it cllicked on is a drag on performance.0 -
thanks for the suggestions John. I regularly defrag my hard drive and run Tech tool on it to repair permissions, etc. also use a cache cleaner. have about 45 percent free space (on 250 gb drive) tho i do have some image files on my boot drive. tried turning off file sharing and that didn't help much . when i do curves or levels in C1 Pro, both processors are running at about 92 and 95 percent (all other apps are closed). my computer is acting like i'm having to go into \"virtual memory\". any other suggestions would be appreciated. thanks, eleanor 0 -
[quote="eleanorbrown" wrote:
thanks for the suggestions John. I regularly defrag my hard drive
Be careful regarding defragging. OSX is extremely touchy about this. TechTools may not be using the right approach for this task. I have a link I will post later about OSX, disk space and hot data clusters that can be damaged by ordinary defragging/optimizing utilities. The only utility I am aware of that observes these hot data clusteres is iDefrag from Corialis Software. (For those who just gotta defrag.)0 -
my opinion is that you need the fastest CPU and most RAM you can cram into a box, with 3.7. I just ran 3.7, on the road, last week, with a 12\" laptop, and 3.7 brought it to its knees.
Bare minimum: G5DP filled with RAM.
Open your Activity Monitor, and keep it up, and watch what happens when you're running CaptureOne. It's like towing a 40' trailer behind a '72 Volkswagon beetle. You've gotta have horsepower, or else twiddle your thumbs(nail)s.0 -
Mark, About the activity monitor...i'd already thought about that and you're right--it takes up huge amounts of the CPU!!! more than CS2 working with much larger files!!! . Is this hogging of the cpu by C1 Pro a software programing problem by the Phase programmers? Both processors are running at nearly full blast.
John, About the defragmenting--I'm using tech tool for that but do use Disk Warrior for everything else. Just how important is it to de frag the disk (not just the files, but the entire disk?) I work with so many large tif. files, from 127 megs and larger) and am continually adding and deleting files that it seems that it would be advisable to defragment to keep the disk in some reasonable order. eleanor0 -
[quote="eleanorbrown" wrote:
John, About the defragmenting--I'm using tech tool for that but do use Disk Warrior for everything else. Just how important is it to de frag the disk (not just the files, but the entire disk?) I work with so many large tif. files, from 127 megs and larger) and am continually adding and deleting files that it seems that it would be advisable to defragment to keep the disk in some reasonable order. eleanor
Read this about OSX and defragging. Simply put, it is not really necessary the way OSX works.
http://www.kernelthread.com/mac/apme/fragmentation/
But, if you can't help yourself,
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/25411
My mac maintenance revolves around 4 things:
Verify/Repair disc
Repair permissions
Cache cleaning
Maintainance crons
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2 ... nance.html
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/performance.html0 -
Just found this regarding drive configuration for the fastest boot drive. Interesting.
http://www.barefeats.com/boot02.html
Regarding whether to set up the sessions on another SATA drive, it makes sense, as OSX works best with lots of free space on the boot drive. Try this forum for the best in geek stuff. I'm learning too!
http://www.macgurus.com/forums/index.php0 -
Great links John, Thanks! I've bookmarked these. Eleanor 0 -
Apple announced they will be moving to Intel processors. We all know Apple has expressed frustrations with the Motorola processor and its problems crossing the 3gHz threshold. When this will hapen, I do not know, but when it does, we will all benefit from speed increases and cost improvements. 0 -
Macaroni will handle a great many of these housekeeping tasks:
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/165930
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