gigapiano

[damiafix]

WHO IS THE BEST SETTINGS IN THE WINDOWS FOR TO LOAD THE GIGAPIANO....THE SETTINGS OF MEMORY AND CACHE?
A MY FRIEND CAN\'T TO LOAD THE GIGAPIANO WITH GIGASAMPLER 1.60 BECAUSE WHEN THE METER OF LOAD IS AT 97 % THE GIGASAMPLER IS BLOKED....THANK YOU VERY MUCH

[mitchb2]

Don\'t bother.
The CD is corrupted.

[rivethead]

Not necessarily... My GigaPiano worked fine...

[damiafix]

I DON\'T THINK THAT THE PROBLEM IS THE CD BECAUSE THE SAME CD AT MY FRIEND IS OK...
THE PROBLEM ARE THE SETTINGS IN THE WINDOWS OR IN THE GIGASAMPLER....

PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!!

[Simon Ravn]

That doesn\'t seem like a problem with Windows. At least not one you can solve by altering cache settings. Something is wrong. How much memory do you have? Could be a lack of RAM problem....

[damiafix]

He have a PII 300 MHZ with 128 Mb of RAM and two HD IBM SCSI (4.5 Gb and 9 Gb ) a INITIO SCSI card , a LIVE and a HAMMERFALL 9652 .

[damiafix]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size=\"1\" face=\"Verdana, Arial\">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Simon Ravn:
That doesn\'t seem like a problem with Windows. At least not one you can solve by altering cache settings. Something is wrong. How much memory do you have? Could be a lack of RAM problem....

<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
The cache in the WINDOWS SETUP....Where?

[nicholash]

Hi damiafix,

I guess the cache settings being refered to are those in the SYSTEM.INI file in the WINDOWS directory. An example is given below, but the values of minfilecache & maxfilecache should be related to the amount of RAM you have. The example given is being used on a PC with 384 MB RAM, but usually the values are much lower (e.g. 32768 for systems with 128 MB RAM).

[vcache]
minfilecache=163840
maxfilecache=163840
chunksize=512

It is often recommended that the values for minfilecache and maxfilecache be set the same, and I have seen a recommendation that says to set it to a value obtained by dividing your total installed RAM by 4 then multiplying the result by 1024.

Nicholas

[damiafix]

thank you very much...
I will verific if the problem depend of this setting
Bye from DAMIAFIX

[damiafix]

Sigh!!!!!
The problem is not resolve.....
I have modify the VCACHE but the GIGASAMPLER don\'t load all the GIGAPIANO and at 97% the GIGASAMPLER is BLOKED...

I don\'t know.....
Now I wait only a miracle....

[Chadwick]

What about copying the Gigapiano folder to the hard disk and installing it from there instead?

[damiafix]

It\'s the same.....

[damiafix]

I have a CDROM SCSI but the problem is different , the GIGASAMPLER don\'t load all the GIGAPIANO ....It\'s bloked at 97 % ...but 10 weeks ago was OK....

[damiafix]

THe problem is OK!!
IT was in the VCACHE SETTING....
but the size for resolve this problem is very strange :

VCACHE ( MIN and MAX ) = 4096

but the sound of the samples in some moments not is continue.....WHY?

[Cody]

I wonder...do you have a SCSI CD ROM or RAM? I do, and I can\'t even register my Gigastudio 96 because my computer doesn\'t recognize the gigapiano CD. At least in the registration program. I have been able to load the gigapiano, but it was touch and go. I thought the CD might be defective. But tech support thinks it might be a bug in the program in regards to SCSI CD Drives. They\'re looking into it.

[nicholash]

Hi again damiafix,

I would have thought that 128 MB RAM should be enough for the Gigapiano, even with VCACHE (min & max) settings of 32768. I\'m wondering if there are other background processes running on your friend\'s machine that are consuming significant amounts of RAM ? Control + Alt + Delete can be used to check which processes are running.

Nicholas

[damiafix]

There is a program that misure the resurces that the background\'s application are using...?

[damiafix]

This is the resultate of the TASK INFO 2000 2.1 ;=)


CPU 5.29% IDLE 96%
Processes 24 Threads 55
Thread Sw/s 105 HW Ints/s 205
Total Ph Kb 130.540 Unl Ph Kb 55.756
Free Ph Kb 29.332 Locked Ph Kb 74.784
File CACHE KB 4.096 Other LockKb 70.688
Free Virt KB 173.256 CommittedKB 124.908
Max Swao KB 256.000 Swap in USE KB 2.520
Page Faults/s 184 Page Discards/s 0
Page Ins KB/s 724 PAge OUTs KB/s 0
GDI % 85 USER % 85
FAT READ KB/s 8 FAT WRITE KB/s 0
FAT READS/s 1 FAT WRITES/s 0

[nicholash]

Hi damiafix,

Try a program called Taskinfo that can be found at www.iarsn.com. (\"http://www.iarsn.com.\")

Nicholas

[nicholash]

Hi damiafix,

Taskinfo also gives a list of processes. Can you provide this also?

Take a look at the results for one of my computers (a Pentium II/350 with 384 MB SDRAM):

Process InMem KB

Idle 0
KERNEL32.DLL 160
MSGSRV32.EXE 0
MPREXE.EXE 0
mmtask.tsk 0
EXPLORER.EXE 4,208
SYSTRAY.EXE 0
MSWHEEL.EXE 0
TAPISRV.EXE 0
DDHELP.EXE 0
NOTEPAD.EXE 924
TASKINFO.EXE 872
VxD NTKERN 0

My PC shows 12 processes (37 threads) and your friend\'s shows 24 processes (55 threads). What are the additional processes?

CPU 1.01%
Idle 98.99%
Processes 12
Threads 37
Thread Sw/s 36
HW Ints/s 265
Total Ph KB 392,696
Unlocked Ph KB 320,776
Free Ph KB 295,284
Locked Ph KB 71,920
File Cache KB 59,580
Other Locked KB 12,340
Free Virt KB 365,204
Committed KB 115,168
Max Swap KB 393,216
Swap in Use KB 0
Page Faults/s 3
Page Discards/s 0
Page Ins KB/s 4
Page Outs KB/s 0

Notice the free physical memory (295,284 KB on my PC): 29,332 KB on your friend\'s PC. 29 MBytes may possibly be a bit small for the GigaPiano (?).

Your friend\'s PC seems to be doing a lot of Page Faults (184/s) and Page Ins (724/s) (compared with 3/s & 4/s on my machine). This may be an indication of an inadequate amount of available RAM.

Hope this helps
Nicholas

[damiafix]

Hi Nicholas ,
this is the results of my friend\'s PC ....
From this results I think that he must to optimize your system....

SYSTEM INFO

CPU 5.29%
IDLE 96%
Processes 24
Threads 55
Thread Sw/s 105
HW Ints/s 205
HW Ints/s 205
Total Ph Kb 130.540
Unlocked Ph Kb 55.756
Free Ph Kb 29.332
Locked Ph Kb 74.784
File CACHE KB 4.096
Other Locked Kb 70.688
Free Virt KB 173.256
Committed KB 124.908
Max Swao KB 256.000
Swap in USE KB 2.520
Page Faults/s 184
Page Discards/s 0
Page Ins KB/s 724
PAge OUTs KB/s 0
GDI % 85
USER % 85
FAT READ KB/s 8
FAT WRITE KB/s 0
FAT READS/s 1
FAT WRITES/s 0


PROCESS

Idle 0
KERNEL32.DLL 44
MSGSRV32.EXE 2.396
SPOLL32.EXE 0
DDHELP.EXE 240
MSGLOOP.EXE 0
MSG32.EXE 0
MPREXE.EXE 480
mmtask.tsk 0
EXPLORER.EXE 14.592
TASKMON.EXE 120
SYSTRAY.EXE 3.444
PDESK.EXE 3.600
WMIEXE.EXE 0
PSTORES.EXE 2.544
NOTEPAD.EXE 1.912
TASKINFO.EXE 2.868
VxD NTKERN 0

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[nicholash]

Hi damiafix,

Was the data for the System Info and Processes collected at the same time ?

The System Info says 24 processes, but I only see 17 in the list of Processes.

Nicholas

[damiafix]

Hi Nicholash,

SYSTEM INFO

CPU 5.29%
IDLE 95%
Processes 20
Threads 55
Thread Sw/s 105
HW Ints/s 205
HW Ints/s 205
Total Ph Kb 130.540
Unlocked Ph Kb 55.756
Free Ph Kb 29.332
Locked Ph Kb 74.784
File CACHE KB 4.096
Other Locked Kb 70.688
Free Virt KB 173.256
Committed KB 124.908
Max Swao KB 256.000
Swap in USE KB 2.520
Page Faults/s 184
Page Discards/s 0
Page Ins KB/s 724
PAge OUTs KB/s 0
GDI % 85
USER % 85
FAT READ KB/s 8
FAT WRITE KB/s 0
FAT READS/s 1
FAT WRITES/s 0


PROCESS

Idle 0
KERNEL32.DLL 44
MSGSRV32.EXE 2.396
CDEWATCH.EXE 48
DIGI9652.EXE
SPOLL32.EXE 0
DDHELP.EXE 240
MSGLOOP.EXE 0
MSG32.EXE 0
MPREXE.EXE 480
mmtask.tsk 0
EXPLORER.EXE 14.592
TASKMON.EXE 120
SYSTRAY.EXE 3.444
PDESK.EXE 3.600
WMIEXE.EXE 0
PSTORES.EXE 2.544
NOTEPAD.EXE 1.912
TASKINFO.EXE 2.868
VxD NTKERN 0

I\'m sorry ...bye

DAMIAFIX

[nicholash]

Hi damiafix,

I\'ve found a useful article about the Windows Swapfile at the following URL:
http://www.pcforrest.co.uk/swapfile.htm (\"http://www.pcforrest.co.uk/swapfile.htm\")

It may also be worth reading:
http://www.pcforrest.co.uk/streamlining_startups.htm (\"http://www.pcforrest.co.uk/streamlining_startups.htm\")

and http://www.pcforrest.co.uk/vcache.htm (\"http://www.pcforrest.co.uk/vcache.htm\")

Is it possible for your friend to temporarily borrow some extra SDRAM from your PC to see what difference it makes? If he buys another 64 or 128 MB, it might help improve the performance of his PC generally.

Perhaps not significant (?), but I notice that your friend\'s EXPLORER.EXE process has an In Memory amount of about 14 MB, whereas my PC seems not to go above approx. 4 MB.

Nicholas

[damiafix]

Hi Nicholash ,
who is \"MSGSRV32.EXE \"?
Damiafix....

[nicholash]

Hi damiafix,

MSGSRV32.EXE is Microsoft\'s Windows 32-bit message server and its functions are described at the following URL:
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q138/7/08.asp (\"http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q138/7/08.asp\")


Hope this helps
Nicholas