[PD] pd with SMP?
Jonathan Nelson
phossie at eds.org
Fri Jul 19 11:35:29 CEST 2002
Hello,
I'm helping develop an installation using pd (linux). We are quite poor,
but still manage to have the choice between using a single celeron 533 MHz
processor, or a SMP system with two celerons running at 523 MHz.
There are four cheap sound cards in this system to give us eight outputs.
I think these must all take their input from one pd, as we need to
smoothly move between them.
The question is this:
Is there a good way to take advantage of both processors in the SMP
configuration (and would this provide a significant performance gain over
a single processor)?
Is Open Sound Control (OSC) the only way to do this (run a pd on each
processor, with a mixing stage in one of them, and OSC providing the
pipe)? Does anyone know if the overhead associated with OSC would make
this a bad idea? Anything better? Any simple solutions?
I hope some of that made sense.
Thanks!
-j
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