Logic And Memory Allocation, Need some help please! Options

[uvbnskoold]

This may be my "slow" area when it comes to computers, but I need some help.

I have 8 gigs of RAM for my G5 Powermac, and I try to run many patches in Logic such as many instruments using EW/QL and the like, but it keeps telling me that memory is getting low and may cause problems such as artifacts, etc.

But when I use the activity monitor, Logic is only using 1.92 gigs of RAM and there are still 5.11 gigs free RAM on the whole system!

What gives?

How can I make sure that Logic has the full power of my loads of RAM?

Thanks in advance!

Uvee

[makaala]

I'm not sure if this will help.. I've been trying it out on a couple of macs...

http://home.comcast.net/~jeff.ulicny/software/

"Speed Freak, at a user-specified interval, reprioritizes applications so that the frontmost (or active) application gets more processor time than background applications. By default in Mac OS X, all processes have equal priority. By using Speed Freak, you override this default by increasing the priority of whatever application you are currently using, resulting in faster application performance. Speed Freak accomplishes this through the Unix "renice" command.

Speed Freak does not affect graphics card performance and will show little to no increase in 3D games. Although Speed Freak does not affect network performance, the increased CPU priority it offers should increase performance in internet applications. For example, web pages with complicated HTML should render faster but download speed will not change."