OSX Optimization+Solution&Warning for Audio-Dropouts

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Sniffo Rewire

Post by +1 » Fri Dec 10, 2004 2:04 pm

the rewire engine is located in:
<your home drive>/Library/Application Support
And/or:
<your home drive>/Users/<YOU>/Library/Application Support


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Post by sniffio » Sat Dec 11, 2004 3:02 pm

Thanks man!
I'd check it right away.

Should I be deleating every rewire on that folder ???
I think I'll be using Cubase with my live4.
I might keep whatever with the word "cubase".
or I might just deleate the whole thing and start once again.

thx +1
really appriciate it.

Yes I know that permission sucks, and there is more to be said than
just permissions. But in my situation, anything is better than nothing.
I love windows, too, by the way.

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Post by +1 » Sat Dec 11, 2004 3:56 pm

Hi

You can delete every rewire in the folder - The progs will create new rewires if they are missin'...

I don't like winfucker that much - I like Mac for its stabillity but not for their stupid use of unix

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Post by sniffio » Sat Dec 11, 2004 3:59 pm

thanks
I really appriciate it.

Yeah, macs can be pretty dumb but they are solid stable.
It it's OK it's really OK. When it's not , it's not.

With Wins, i never know when I'm going to choke.

Thanks my friend.

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A couple of things to read

Post by +1 » Sun Dec 12, 2004 10:32 am

Anytime

By the way..
If you want to do proper install you should read the following:

1. Make sure your hard drive is in good shape: Boot from the OS X Install CD and run Disk Utility's Repair Disk function (or use a third-party drive utility such as DiskWarrior or TechTool Pro).

2. When booted from the volume containing Mac OS X, run Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions function.

3. Run software update from the system prefs pane, BUT! DO NOT CLICK ON UPDATE BUTTON! Instead go to the UPDATE MENU next to FILE and pick UPDATE AND KEEP PACKAGE. This way if any updates are screwed up or crashes, you can reapply the update because it is downloaded first to your Library> Packages Folder. Especially security updates sometimes seems to crash, rarely but it does. However if it does crash and you go to software update again, it shows that it was already applied, eventhough it was only installed halfway. By choosing update and keep package you can always Re-Force the update in full and have it work correctly and stabily.

4. After rebooting, again run Repair Disk Permissions.

These progs sounds interesting:

Slipy is a utility used to create a Mac OS X install DVD disk images from your existing Mac OS X 10.3 install or upgrade CD set, Mac OS X 10.3 Server install CD set or Mac OS X 10.3 install DVD. In addition, Slipy can create automated installs and will allow you to "slipstream" or add additional software installations to your install DVD. Once created, simply use Disk Utility to burn your custom image to DVD.:
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/24178

AppleJack is a tool to make it easy to troubleshoot your Mac when no other startup disk is available to you. The script gives you an interactive menu-driven environment for basic disk check/repair, permissions repair, .plist validation, cache cleanup, and swap file removal. You can do basic system maintenance even if your GUI won't start up at all, simply by booting into single user mode, and typing 'applejack'.
This new version includes a workaround to get diskutil to work under Panther (which means you can perform permissions repair again), preference file validation, and much more:
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/19596

OOOrrr

Maby this will help:
http://emusician.com/mag/emusic_tracking_big_cats/


Enjoy The reading

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hmmm

Post by +1 » Tue Dec 14, 2004 7:05 pm

I did as this article suggested.. Twice!!
(http://emusician.com/mag/emusic_tracking_big_cats)
I have a Powermac G4, Dual 1GHz, 1,25GB ram, RME Hammerfall 9652 running OSX 10.3.6

My system performance didn't get any better. :-(
Glitches are still there :-/
The volume drops disapeared :-)
It took me 12 hours.......

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Post by by-pass » Mon Dec 20, 2004 6:14 pm

I have made one new install (my second partition) , with the howto from sniffio and +1,
My setup run really more fast , OSX use only 90meg ram :-) and Live use 20-40 % less cpu
Thks to alll

Fil
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  • Macbook pro, RME multiface, Korg nanoPAD, nanoKeys, Ableton Live + Max4live

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Post by sniffio » Mon Dec 20, 2004 6:41 pm

Great !
I'm glad it helped.
It's really nice to know.

One more tip.
You can use the disc utility on your disc one,
and disable the "journaling" on the menu for your HDD.

Journaling makes a copy of your on-going data simultaneously,
which is helpful when your osx craches.
But this means your data is written twice as much(i dunno the numbers) . So if you want the hard disk data to flow real smooth,
such as large audio data,
you should let this "journaling" function become off.

I'll include this on my post.
thx reminding me.

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Post by by-pass » Mon Dec 20, 2004 6:58 pm

Sniffio,
I am not sure for the journaling, I use it with linux from several years, but i go to test it!

One good thing is disabling with diablotin and root access--> some shit like:
apache
appleshare
NFS
LDAP
Postfix
Networktime
//
The font ( just have helvetica, times)
//
the preloaded progs
ppp
pppoe
etc..
//
I go to prepare one little howto and also one minimal image from my personal install ( with the update but without any prog dont come with apple.....
just diablotin// monolingual// and desktop manager

see you

fil
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  • Macbook pro, RME multiface, Korg nanoPAD, nanoKeys, Ableton Live + Max4live

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Post by sniffio » Mon Dec 20, 2004 7:39 pm

ok
thx for the tip.

I updated my post.
Hope it helps the next one.

By the way, I'm getting all the information from many great people from this forum, and especially these articles that I'm reading. It's really great.
PLZ check it out when you have the time.

Sound on Sound (it's the best)
http://www.soundonsound.com/

Electronic Musician
http://www.emusician.com/

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Cool prog.

Post by +1 » Tue Dec 21, 2004 12:25 am

Hi guys

You should concider the prog. Applejack it helped a lot on system performance..

It's great to be appreciated ...

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Re: hmmm

Post by +1 » Mon Dec 27, 2004 10:23 pm

+1 wrote:I did as this article suggested.. Twice!!
(http://emusician.com/mag/emusic_tracking_big_cats)
I have a Powermac G4, Dual 1GHz, 1,25GB ram, RME Hammerfall 9652 running OSX 10.3.6

My system performance didn't get any better. :-(
Glitches are still there :-/
The volume drops disapeared :-)
It took me 12 hours.......

See ya
I forgot to tell that I installed live 4.0.3 - Now i'll try and install live 4.0.4 Lets see what happens....

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Post by sniffio » Mon Jan 10, 2005 2:51 pm

I had to go back to OS10.3.6 from 10.3.7.
My fans wouldn't stop spining in 10.3.7.
Everything is back to STABILITY in 10.3.6
with better track pad movements.

I also updated the "FIX".
Only minor things though.

This time, I downloaded all the latest updates and applications before the erase&install of the OSX. (Updates include the OS10.3.6, too)
I saved all the applications dmg files into my external HDD.
After all the installing was done, then I opened my dmgs and installed all the updates and the application to my powerbook's HDD.
Working sweet so far.

Have to mention that I did not download the isight & ipod updater this time.

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Post by sniffio » Mon Jan 10, 2005 8:47 pm

>>+1, how is your status at the moment ?
Has audio glitch improven ?

>>by-pass, have you ever heard the application called "Bootconfig".
You can disable many boot-related programs with this.
But you must be extremely careful, such as never disabling the "login window" and stuff. You can destroy your computer with this.
I had disabled many things like you posted, but it only saved me few power. After I disabled those "small" programs, i dunno why but live4's input gave a inourmus noise which went way over the peak limit.
Ever since that happened, I decided not to mess with those boot-related-programs.

well, anyways.
Happy new year.

Wishing you the luck.

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Post by sniffio » Sun Jan 23, 2005 1:42 pm

I updated the fix.
Fix version 1.0.3

It includes,

+how to remove or delete the "itunes helper"
+How to remove or delete the "Apple-Modem-On-Hold"

Is anyone viewing this thread?
If not, i guess i will stop updating the fix anymore.

Will update if it is helping anyone.

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