serious beachball / hanging when switching back to PT10HD

[studioj11]

HD3 Accel in magma chassis
Mac Pro dual quad 2.93 Nehalem
OS 10.6.8
32 gigs RAM

PT is hanging with spinning beachball for as long as 10-15 seconds when switching back to it from other apps like VEP and Email. sometimes shorter, sometimes longer. seems to happen whether I have a large session or a small one with empty tracks. Deleted prefs and database files, seems to have improved ever so slightly but still happening. ideas? Trying out the trial due to the MIDI output selector bug in PT9. Thanks much-

j

[studioj11]

I _think_ i figured it out... an imac on the same network was running a time machine backup to a NAS. I stopped that backup and it seems to be working now. I guess the network traffic was interfering with PT somehow. bizarre but at least its working now.

[Bushpig]

J,

There's been a long standing issue with PT having to bow to the idiosyncrasies of the OS when it polls for hard drives (especially over the network) and the only reliable solution has been to "disable" the network ie: stop the machine you're working on from being part of the network so the poll'ing doesn't interfere with PT operation. I just turn off my Airport connection.

Cheers

Steve Bush
www.music180.com/pros/5887

MacPro 4.1 (Nehalem) 2.26 8 Core, OSX 10.6.8, PT10HD, 14 Gig RAM, PCIe HD3, 192, Sync I/O, Midi I/O.

[bonfi64]

ehi guys!!! all running app must be closed while running PT and time machine not allowed, same as spolight, this also from previous PT version,
this is not from my experience but from Avid site, this apply also for other sequencers.

[Bushpig]

Bonfi,

all running app must be closed while running PT

Not strictly true. How on earth would we run Reason, Kontakt Memory server or Melodyne etc without other programs open? No, this is mostly recommended for troubleshooting purposes. Which is fair enough, but I run all sorts of other programs at the same time as PT without problems (they even suggest switching off Bluetooth, but again that's just for troubleshooting purposes, I run one of my machines with a wireless keyboard and mouse permanently). The networking thing is something entirely different.

Studio J. Anyways, I went back and found the thread from a while ago where a few of us were discussing this issue with DTS.

http://duc.avid.com/showthread.php?t=277616&page=4

DTS response 3rd from the top and 3rd from the bottom pretty much sum this problem up.

Hope this helps (but it probably won't, as we're stuck with this performance it seems).

Cheers

Steve Bush
www.music180.com/pros/5887

MacPro 4.1 (Nehalem) 2.26 8 Core, OSX 10.6.8, PT10HD, 14 Gig RAM, PCIe HD3, 192, Sync I/O, Midi I/O.