It's posible the difference is in the choice of audio API (oss vs. alsa) or something like that -- "nosleep" prevents Pd from explicitly sleeping but sometimes transferring data to DACs blocks the process.
cheers Miller On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 03:36:33PM +0100, Pedro Lopes wrote: > Here it works: > $ pd -nosleep > Gives one of the CPU's 100% load fulltime. No need to run in root for this. > My startup alredy boots pd with -rt flag and I have the limits.conf tuned as > reported on the wiki/documentation. > > The system is: > $ Linux 2.6.31-9-rt #152-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT RT Thu Oct 15 05:01:14 UTC 2009 > i686 GNU/Linux > (Ubuntu 9.10 rt) > (The CPU is a *AMD* Turion 64 X2 TL-60.) > > On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Ingo Scherzinger <i...@miamiwave.com> wrote: > > > 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 > > > > > -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht----- > > > Von: Miller Puckette [mailto:mpuck...@imusic1.ucsd.edu] > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Pd-list@iem.at mailing list > > > > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd- > > > list > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Pd-list@iem.at mailing list > > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > > > > > > -- > Pedro Lopes > contacto: j...@radiozero.pt > website: http://web.ist.utl.pt/Pedro.Lopes > _______________________________________________ > Pd-list@iem.at mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list _______________________________________________ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list