Well I just made a wiki page, since the other pages is intended as a help page. here goes the link for the page.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuStudio/ControlsRedesign 2010/3/30 Ricardo Lameiro <ricardolame...@gmail.com> > I order to UScontrols to address all of this settings, we should post at > the wiki page the links for the future redesign. > If averyone can post links to tutorials, scripts, HOW TOs or processes to > configure the computer for audio performance. The most info we gather the > better. > I will try to edit Scott wiki page for USControls. > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuStudioControls > > > > 2010/3/30 Brian David <beej...@gmail.com> > > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 7:01 AM, Fritz Meissner > <meissner.fr...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> On 30 March 2010 06:17, Brian David <beej...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> > On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Fritz Meissner < >>> meissner.fr...@gmail.com> >>> > wrote: >>> >> >>> >> Secondly, I have recently seen rather exasperated comments (from >>> >> someone that I respect as an authority) that the mystique surrounding >>> >> "nice" settings is misplaced and that it has virtually nothing to do >>> >> with audio performance. If this is the case, then should that setting >>> >> not be removed from the Controls ? >>> >>> > >>> > I'd be interested to hear these comments, because from my >>> understanding, >>> > niceness has a lot to do with audio performance. Or, more generally, >>> it has >>> > a lot to with the performance of any process. By setting the niceness >>> of >>> > programs run by users in the Audio group to -19, you are letting the >>> kernel >>> > know that those programs take precedence over most others when deciding >>> how >>> > to allocate CPU resources. How would this not help performance? If >>> this is >>> > misguided, then it would definitely be good to know. >>> > >>> > -- >>> > -Brian David >>> > >>> >>> Brian, >>> >>> The comments I was remembering are in the following two posts on the >>> Linux Audio User mailing list : >>> >>> >>> http://lists.linuxaudio.org/pipermail/linux-audio-user/2009-November/064820.html >>> >>> http://lists.linuxaudio.org/pipermail/linux-audio-user/2009-November/064828.html >>> >>> I don't have the expertise to evaluate them, but there are enough >>> knowledgeable people on LAU that I would have expected the comments to >>> be shot down if they were out of line (they weren't). >>> >>> I noticed in those posts that they regard rtprio as the critical >>> setting - should this be included in Studio Controls ? >>> >>> Fritz >>> >>> -- >>> Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list >>> Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com >>> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel >>> >> >> Hard to argue with Paul Davis. :) >> >> Okay, so it's good to hear that Studio Control should eventually be able >> to configure the rtprio settings. Something that I am always needing to do >> on my Ubuntu Studio systems is manually setting the priorities of certain >> real-time threads (as described on this page: >> http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Low_latency_howto, down at the >> Thread Priorities section. Coincidentally one of the many pages that >> suggests adjusting the nice settings). Without doing this, I get an >> unusable amount of x-runs with the rt-kernel, and it works wonderfully after >> they are set. Can Ubuntu Studio Controls be made to set these thread >> priorities? That would be lovely. >> >> -- >> -Brian David >> >> -- >> Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list >> Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel >> >> > > > -- > Fagote / Contrafagote > Bassoon / Contra-bassoon > http://myspace.com/ricardolameiro > -- Fagote / Contrafagote Bassoon / Contra-bassoon http://myspace.com/ricardolameiro
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