Optimize OSX Performance for Audio

Discussion in 'Mac / Hackintosh' started by copylefter, May 8, 2014.

  1. Iggy

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    Also amazing with Kontakt.
     
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    I can recommend LuLu as free, opensource firewall solution.
    Also Focusrite published something similar, and this could help for Thunderbolt Interfaces: Link
    "Apple Menu > System Preferences > Network and make sure to remove any Network Adapters you are not currently using for Internet or LAN. Having ports you use for audio set to also be used for Networking can eat up their bandwidth which is needed for smooth audio streaming."
     
  3. Moonlight

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    they meanwhile fixed the kernel panics and high CPU usage ?
     
  4. Bolle

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    I did not experience any of this problems. So yes I think they did!
     
  5. Moonlight

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    I tried it as well , works great so far !
     
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    Can we start a holly war what's better Mac or Windows? lol
     
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    All i want to know is if ppl have better results in majovie with hfs+ as to afps
    Nothing special to me as far as catalina or bigsur goes…forget security, privacy and blocking backdoor with those OSs
     
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    How to install Diablotin ? I've tried everything.

    Also, when I run your Ram Purge with Automator, it says "
    The action « Execute a Shell script » encountered an error : « Unable to purge disk buffers: Operation not permitted »

    Can you help me please :)
     
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    Brilliant , I'll need that .
     
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    Just open terminal and type sudo purge
     
  11. 5teezo

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    You should not follow this guide in 2023. macOS has changed a lot since 2014. There are 9 iterations between the writing of this guide (10.8.5) and the current version of macOS (13).
    • Deleting Fonts: Unnecessary. Waste of time. Doesn't improver performance at all.
    • Disabling Hibernation: Unnecessary. You're system won't enter Hibernation when you are working on it!
    • Removing unused Languages: Unnecessary in terms of performance. The gains in reclaimed disk space disk are minimal.
    • Disabling Spotlight: Bad idea. Don't do it, you won't find any samples in Finder! Once macOS has finished indexing the drive after initial installations it doesn't take much resources
    • Disabling Login-Items/Launch Agents: DON'T DO IT IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY ARE FOR! Some apps and plugins require them to work properly. Maschine 2 for example will take forever to start if you disable N.I. related Launch Agents.
    • Don't purge Memory: macOS'es Memory management is excellent. No need to purge ram. It's a waste of time since of time to do it.
    • Removing unused architectures: Catalina is the smallest version of macOS since it only contains code for 64-bit Intel. Big Sur and newer contain code for ARM (Apple Silicon) as well. So Monolingual won't remove any of this code at all. Waste of time
    In general, macOS doesn't suck at handling Audio (unlike Windows) so there's no need to pseudo-optimize it. The only things that really help to squeeze the last 2 % of performance out of system running at its limits are:
    • Disabling Wifi and Bluetooth
    • Disabling Notification Center (may require different commands based on the version of macOS)
     
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    Cheers, 5t.
     
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