Well, I tried running Pd both as a normal user (with realtime rights) and root (from the console). In either case case the gnome-system-monitor said "sleeping" unless I went over 50% CPU usage for a moment with that particular pd patch. I'm using an AMD Athlon II X2 250 dual core with 3.0 GHz.
Ingo > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Miller Puckette [mailto:[email protected]] > Gesendet: Freitag, 7. Mai 2010 05:31 > An: Ingo Scherzinger > Cc: 'pd-list' > Betreff: Re: [PD] -nosleep flag not doing anything? (Ubuntu 10.4 - Pd-extended > 0.42.5) > > Hi Ingo, > > I've tested this on linux (although not recently) and it seemed to work. > Naturally, you need at least a 2-processor machine, otherwise the machine > will freeze. > > Should theoretically work on Mac too, but I don't have any 2+-processor > mac to try it on. Probably does nothing on windows. > > cheers > Miller > > On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 08:13:43PM +0200, Ingo Scherzinger wrote: > > I just noticed that the -nosleep flag dosn't seem to do anything. When I > > take a look at the system monitor it says about pd "sleeping" until I do > > something. Even while doing some "light" things it keeps saying "sleeping". > > Is there any condition I have to set in the system to recognise the > > -nosleep flag. Realtime is turned on. I had to change some audio properties > > to be able to use -rt without being root. Is there something similar about > > "-nosleep"? Does the "-nosleep" flag actually help anything? Especially when > > the system load gets heavy? > > > > > > > > Ingo > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > [email protected] mailing list > > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd- > list _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
