Memory use oddness

[jkoseattle]

I have a project template which when loaded pretty much maxes out my RAM, about 6 Gb. I get a warning from CbB which I ignore. There are a few dozen EastWest instruments loaded. (Too much, I know.) Anyway, I unload 4 of these few dozen instruments and the memory usage shoots down to about 4 Gb, then when I check a few minutes later having changed nothing, it's down to 2 Gb. When I re-load the instruments I had unloaded a few minutes prior, the memory only goes back a little bit. So now my project has all the same instruments loaded that it had when I first opened it, but the memory usage shows ~2 Gb whereas it was over 6 Gb when I first opened it. Why is that?

 

[chuckebaby]

Possibly due to the samples ALL being loaded at launch versus loaded and sitting idle while (after launch).

Im not really sure how Cakewalk interprets this TBH. but it would seem the samples aren't loaded in memory yet once you are adding them to an established open project. Possibly they are sitting in cue awaiting a signal.