CPU Overloads: What to try?

I know this is a tired subject but considering that it doesn't seem the CPU overload and application instability can be solved in the current version of Logic, just wondering if anyone has a good work around.
Basically, I find that while using 3rd party plugins (i.e. Kontakt 2, Omnisphere), I can get about 8 or 9 tracks before I begin to have routine application crashes, overload message, etc. Freezing does not change this (and the activity monitor shows a massive jump in real memory from 2.0 gigs to 16TB with the addition of a 9th track depending on the size of the instruments i'm using). This also has nothing to do with buffer size.
I realize that Logic has limitations in the collective size of the plugins that can be loaded (up to 2.7 gigs of 3rd party plugins) so I'm wondering if I wanted to at least double the number of soft synth instruments I can load up what could I do? I've heard some people add more hardware like another Mac or something like Muse receptor which can load your plugins through logic but doesn't tap into Logic resources. Not sure how this works though, or if there's a better idea out there.
Any heavy soft synth users out there?

and the activity monitor shows a massive jump in real memory from 2.0 gigs to 16TB
It's a known issue with Kontakt that it can only handle 2 Gigs, adjust the DFD settings and reduce the number of voices to 128 (12MB) that will free up quite a lot of RAM. Also you can open a standalone version of Kontakt and wire it via the IAC Bus giving you another 2 Gigs if you have enough RAM installed. With Kontakt update 3.5 the 2 Giga limit will be gone but that doesn't help so much as Logic will still be a 32 Bit application in which the limit still is about 2,7 Gigs of physical and 3,5 Gigs of virtual RAM.
Besides that enter the word "overload" in the search field of this Forum and you will get thousands of posts about that tiring topic...

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