Allocating More Ram To PT on Intel Mac

[EvilElfBoy]

Can anyone chime in to tell me how I can allocate more memory to PT in Tiger on an Intel machine? I'm trying to run BFD2 and just dropping all my samples to ram, but protools freaks out and doesn't think there is enough ram for some reason. I have 10 gig's installed, and I did a remeber test to see if I had any bad dimms, and that's not the case, everything works great, no kernel panics, just protools thinks it's running out of memory. How can I fix this?

Best,

EEB

[badboymusic]

You won't be able to "Load all to Ram" in BFD 1 or 2 if the samples exceed 2 Gigs, that is the max that can be utilized. You would have to use lower resolution, less velocity layers, etc...

[the dude]

You won't be able to "Load all to Ram" in BFD 1 or 2 if the samples exceed 2 Gigs

Not entirely true

FYI just use the activity monitor and look at system RAM get sucked up, way beyond 2 gigs if you load a BFD kit into RAM (( especially a big AJ kit ))

and what really Sux is that even when you take BFD out of the picture you will not recover all of that RAM until you reboot

[EvilElfBoy]

Yeah when I look at the activity monitor if PT goes beyond 2 gig's of memory use it's WIGGS, goes to crazy numbers like 16,567,457, 768. Is there a way to give protools more then a 2 gig allocation?