Some INTERESTING programs!!

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Some interesting programs
One call Data Advisor at http://www.ontrack.com It check your sytem including ram ,mine passed 100%

another called dskbench on Dave B's logic audio FAQ'S and support page (which I could not find the second time I looked thru the site but it is there somewhere)
It put your system through a "recording " session and my system failed 100%.
for example cpu during write should have been 0.88% mine was 79.00% ..cpu during read 0.86% mine was 95.00%
I wonder why ,I'm stumped!!! You might find dskbench at http://www.ses.es .
Has anyone used these little programs ,are they reliable, is there better ones :confused:
 
ps

I just tied the ses link and it did not work but it is at daves logic site somewhere
 
CPU Hog

What 'v you got a 286?
Just kidding.
Sounds like you most certainly don't have DMA
turned on. This info has been posted many places.
See my post 'Hope for PC Recording', I think I put
it there. I you want some more help, list details on
your system.
-DC
 
HI memphis.

I have a Pent III 550 mhz,128 ram , aopen m/board with pent 440bx chip set,5400rpm(I only record a couple tracks,instrumental acoustic stuff)13g h/d, running cool edit and logic .With word 2000 and printer and modem.
I have just done some more tweaking as follows:-
Virt memory min and max =364
read-ahead disabled
write-behind caching disabled
all cd&h/disk DMA checked
graphics turned down two notches
computer set to network server.
I found out I had a faulty cdr drive and that is not there at the moment.Could a faulty cdr drive affect other things the computer guy I returned it to says it could!!
I've done that little test with dskbench and my cpu is down to like 1.77% and 2.33% according to the program it should be 0. something.
I have tried to find virtual cache and had no luck in windows.
I'm gonna give it a work out as soon as!! but I hav had these settings before and still had problems!! I'll see how it goes thanks PETE>>:eek:
 
All DMA?

Careful- Are you sure your CDs are UDMA compliant?
I read avoiding turning on UDMA on the IDE (usually
slave) that has the CD-ROM is best because many
aren't UDMA. Try just having DMA enabled on the IDE
controller that the recording hard disk is on.

About the CDR, are you asking could the faulty CDR
damaged stuff in your system? I've never seen that
sort of interraction and I've abused a lot of systems.
So I guess maybe but its a LONG shot.

How about that 5400 drive. Do you have a dedicated partition
and is it cleaned out or defragged when your working?
I read about the tip of trying to use the outer portion
of the disk by setting up a small C boot parition and
using D for recording and E for OS & programs. I haven't
done it, but maybe with the thruput of your drive its
necessary. Supposed to be 60% better thruput.

AND DO NOT HAVE YOUR RECORDING DISK ON THE SAME CONTROLLER
WITH A CDROM!

I have no experience with having fancy video cards in
my machine while doing audio- maybe it would be good
to try a plain jane svga card just to see if thats
still bugging the system.

Just how bad and how often are your pops? Do they
correspond with the disk light? This might tell you
if its really drive related. When I once installed
the disk drivers with that I got with the mother board
I knew right away they caused a problem because I got
noise that coincided with the disk light.

That's all I can think of for now.
 
Yeah ,They are dma compliant.
I'm gonna partition next and give that a try and have my daw 100% solo..:)
 
I have tried the little dskbench program again and it gave me another totally different read out as compared to the last ones I've done ,Maybe it isn't very reliable.
Any one tried that program? :confused:
 
That test program

I ran it twice and it gave reasonably consistent
number except for the cpu utilization.
The mb/sec is what I think I was most interested in,
and these were within a few 100k/sec.
Heres a run on my celeron 333.

DskBench 2.11
(c) 1998, SESA, J.M.Catena (admin@sesa.es, http://www.sesa.es)
Timer Check = 990 (should be near 1000)
CPU Check = 55.45 % (should be near 50.00 %)
CPU index (relative to Pro 200 MHz) = 1.191868
Open = 1 ms
Write = 21113 ms, 12.13 MB/s, CPU = 5.90 %
Flush = 29 ms
Rewin = 0 ms
Read = 21951 ms, 11.66 MB/s, CPU = 3.09 %
Close = 92 ms
BlockSize = 131072, MB/s = 6.70, Tracks = 79.66, CPU = 3.94 %
BlockSize = 65536, MB/s = 3.92, Tracks = 46.60, CPU = 2.73 %
BlockSize = 32768, MB/s = 6.17, Tracks = 73.33, CPU = 3.61 %
BlockSize = 16384, MB/s = 5.68, Tracks = 67.51, CPU = 5.52 %
BlockSize = 8192, MB/s = 6.20, Tracks = 73.69, CPU = 10.65 %
BlockSize = 4096, MB/s = 5.81, Tracks = 69.05, CPU = 18.68 %
 
Dskbench is really quite good. It's MUCH tougher on your system than most audio benchmarkers...like Echo's garbage utility. It writes I believe 10 very large files to the drive to simulate a multitracking environment. In fact, if you kill dskbench before it finishes you can check the files out.

I used it way back when I was doing my ATA/33 vs ATA/66 comparison. My only complaint is that it's kinda hard to use for people who didn't grow up with DOS :)

Slackmaster 2000
 
Intresting,mine won't test the 4096 blocksize.
something is not right.
It stops the test short
 
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