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'Renicing' Pro Tools [solved]
Is there anyone out there who has experience with 'renicing' Pro Tools? I've changed the value to -20 with an AppleScript but it's resetting itself back to 0 after every process.
For example - I renice Pro Tools to -20; confirm it is indeed -20; open a plugin window; recheck the nice value; it's reset back to 0. Looking for advice, if any.
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Pro Tools 2024.3.0|Perpetual MTRX Studio HDX1 Sync-X S3 Dock Mac Mini 2018 - 3.2GHz i7 6-core macOS 13.6 RAM 64GB DDR4 GPU AMD 6900XT 16GB Monitor LG 32UL950-W Last edited by TrentWilliams; 07-23-2020 at 01:36 AM. |
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Re: 'Renicing' Pro Tools
Opening a plugin does not renice Pro Tools for me.
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$ ps -evlc | head -1 PID STAT TIME SL RE PAGEIN VSZ RSS LIM TSIZ %CPU %MEM COMMAND UID PPID F CPU PRI NI WCHAN ADDR TTY $ ps -evlc | grep 'Pro Tools\s*\d' 16702 S 2:20.43 0 0 0 10292984 752176 - 0 14.0 2.2 Pro Tools 501 1 4084 0 97 0 - 0 ?? $ sudo renice -20 16702 $ ps -evlc | head -1 PID STAT TIME SL RE PAGEIN VSZ RSS LIM TSIZ %CPU %MEM COMMAND UID PPID F CPU PRI NI WCHAN ADDR TTY $ sudo renice -20 16702 $ ps -evlc | grep 'Pro Tools\s*\d' 16702 S< 2:24.21 0 0 0 10292984 752176 - 0 14.2 2.2 Pro Tools 501 1 4084 0 97 -20 - 0 ?? $ ### Opened plugins and inserted more plugins... $ ps -evlc | head -1 PID STAT TIME SL RE PAGEIN VSZ RSS LIM TSIZ %CPU %MEM COMMAND UID PPID F CPU PRI NI WCHAN ADDR TTY $ ps -evlc | grep 'Pro Tools\s*\d' 16702 S< 2:33.31 0 0 0 10296448 759680 - 0 16.6 2.3 Pro Tools 501 1 4084 0 97 -20 - 0 ?? |
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Re: 'Renicing' Pro Tools
It would actually be impossible for PT to renice itself along the way as the process is not ran with root privilege. Admin user is not enough for renice
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Re: 'Renicing' Pro Tools
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Still this seems strange behavior and I would want to see what exactly is being looked at here. |
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Re: 'Renicing' Pro Tools
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Here's a screen capture : https://streamable.com/3ux0og
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Re: 'Renicing' Pro Tools
OK Trent, well it's not doing that for me. I tried multiple sessions and made sure I put the transport in play after opening the plugins etc. the same as you did.
I have a pretty clean install of 2020.5 on Mojave 10.14.6. (so close to yours). So one wild ass guess here is a plugin might be doing something silly, and maybe not even the one you are opening. If you want to get carried away we could scan all the plugin binaries for the setpriority() system call, but it's just easier for you do do a quick test there of moving all plugins out of the Pro Tools folder, trashing prefs, and testing with the session with just the default plugins that Pro Tools puts back. |
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Re: 'Renicing' Pro Tools
Make sure you have not left applescript to do stuff, have it invoking a mangled renice command etc. I would get rid of all that/that might be left running. And test without it.
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Re: 'Renicing' Pro Tools
Hey Darryl! Thanks for your hard work in helping me figure this one out. It turns out there was another application open (App Tamer) which was prioritising nice values and interfering. Once I closed that app I was then able to set PT to -20 and have it stay there. I wrote an AppleScript which auto sets PT to -20 on launch so I dont have to go through terminal every time 🍻
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Re: 'Renicing' Pro Tools [solved]
Good to hear. But I doubt making PT not nice will make a difference. Would be happy to be proven wrong though
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Re: 'Renicing' Pro Tools [solved]
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Take it for a spin and report back? I ‘feel’ like it’s snappier and slightly more responsive but that could be placebo talking. *Plugins do seem a little faster to open? The biggest performance increase I’ve seen in recent days is utilising a TimeMachine scheduler to automate backups outside of work hours. TM really hogs system resources, can not recommend enough.
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