There are plugins that may affect the performance of your audio plugin host (such as Gig Performer) by writing megabytes of data to disk.
Symptoms
A customer noticed that Gig Performer seemed to be responding poorly at times. After investigation he discovered that under some circumstances it looked like Gig Performer was writing many many megabytes of data to the hard drive when changing from one rackspace to another.
The problem only seemed to occur when Predictive Loading was enabled in Gig Performer.
The culprit!
After some investigation and working with the customer, we discovered that the problem was due to a plugin called BLISS which was writing megabytes of data (debug information) to a log file in the BLISS subfolder.
After we deleted that log file, the problem went away.
If you are using BLISS and encounter this problem, please contact discoDSP for more information and support.
Update:
Apparently the Melda Looper Plugin (MSuperLooper) also saves all the audio loops as part of the plugin state and that will cause the gig file to explode in size as well.
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