Using Growl on a DAW

highpass · Post by **highpass** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 7:15 pm

Currently I have Growl installed on a Powerbook that's used half of the time for general purposes, and the other half for music production. Because of this ratio I don't mind having Growl installed & stopping it when needed.

I'd now like to install it on a Powermac that's used purely for production purposes, and am wondering whether it's a good idea to have such an app running in the background that may effect any demanding projects being worked on.

Does anyone have Growl running when doing lengthy resource-demanding tasks such as this?

Post by **The_Tick** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 11:05 pm

Should be fine. You might want to enable the Growl Menu, and if you notice any problems you can stop it there a lot quicker than going into system prefs.

I've used Growl nonstop for about 3 years, during some pretty process intensive tasks, with no problems.

highpass · Post by **highpass** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 1:28 pm

Music to my ears Mr Tick, ta.

ofri · Post by **ofri** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 1:56 pm

I also keep Growl running ALL the time even when compiling, working with photoshop and having some other 10 running apps

You see, when Growl is not displaying anything, it's taking no CPU power, and if idle long enough, its memory will be swapped to your disk and free your RAM as well. This is true for every app that does no tasks even though it is running.
Ahh.. the beauty of OSX/BSD

highpass · Post by **highpass** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 10:16 am

Understood.. thanks for the explanation