<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Mar 7, 2010, at 8:16 AM, William Brent wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi Ben,<br><br>For what it's worth, I just tested a patch running steady at 85% with<br>0.41.4-extended, and realtime reliably gives me values between<br>992-1008ms for a [delay 1000]. This is on a 2.5Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo,<br>4GB, OS 10.5.8.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Same values for me with same hardware running 10.6.2 and Pd-extended 0.41.4.</div><div><br></div><div>After using Pd on Linux for some years, I was expecting to experience the dreaded OSX "slow pd and midi syndrome". So far I haven't had any problems of the sort and my patches run just as they do in Linux with -rt. Of course I'm not using GEM and I'm not running 20 other applications at once as most mac users seem to do ...</div><div><br></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 10:25 PM, B. Bogart <<a href="mailto:ben@ekran.org">ben@ekran.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Hey all,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I've been running a patch on an intel mac for a while, but noticed some<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">horrid timing problems [delay 1000] takes ~3000ms according to [realtime].<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">The patch uses between 50% and 105% CPU according to top.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I've not got it down to about ~1500ms, but I can't pull back the patch any<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">further, and top says it using only 50-64% CPU...<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I realized I was not using -rt, but when I try and run pd-extended (sorry I<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">don't recall the version, probably the stable one as of Sept 2009) pd does<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">not start in -rt mode, I get no messages from stdout or the console like I<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">do in linux to tell me about priority scheduling.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Are there versions of pd-extended for OSX where -rt works? How do I set it.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I tried:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">-rt in "startup flags"<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">sudo /Application/Pd-extended/.../bin/pd -rt<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">sudo su<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">/Application/Pd-extended/.../bin/pd -rt<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">And nothing works.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">So what have I missed? Or what Pd should I be using?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Thanks,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">B. Bogart<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:Pd-list@iem.at">Pd-list@iem.at</a> mailing list<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list">http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><br><br><br>-- <br>William Brent<br><a href="http://www.williambrent.com">www.williambrent.com</a><br><br>“Great minds flock together”<br>Conflations: conversational idiom for the 21st century<br><br>www.conflations.com<br><br><br><br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>
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