Its Been asked 1000 times b4 but its just not making sense.......

Question

I have just completed a track containing about 24 tracks all together.
I have just started making a new track, with about 5 audio tracks and 3 midi tracks running, and i keep getting that annoying core audio error msg -
Disk is too slow or
System Overload.
(-10010)
Its not making any sense cos the track i just completed didnt have these problems
I'm running G5 2.3ghz with 1.5ram.
Ive read through other posts about this but they all seem to say check your energy saver options, but those settings have always been how they should be.
Can anyone help, or suggest another trick to sort this out. Why all of a sudden is all my memory being eaten up???

Answer 1

One other thought is fragmentation. If you record and erase a whole lot, then your files could be fragmented, which would affect performance. There are defragmenting programs, which I have never used, available such as Norton Utilities. What I do is after a project. Say an album. I back up my work on DVD, then reformat my Audio drives. You can try that if you suspect your disk. Save your work on DVD, or another drive. Erase the disk, then put your files back to that drive. It should assemble the files continuously. You will have to re assign your record path after doing this, since the song is moved from its former "address". In older versions of Logic, you had to "search for the missing files" which the machine would do at the click of a button, but now it seems to locate them automatically without this step. Only the record path must be reset. OR If your disk is nearly full, I understand that the disk has poorer performance along the outer edge. Finally, if you are playing back samples from say, a program that uses Disk streaming, and if those sample files are located on your system disk, or I suppose even on your Audio disk, that could be creating an exhausting work load. If this is the case, you should store such samples on a separate, dedicated Hard drive of their own.