[PD] gripd glitches

[Joseph A. Sarlo]

Well, you should definately run PD with -rt. If you're calling GrIPD with
an "open" message, the GrIPD GUI will run with priority 0 (SCHED_OTHER)
schedualing (as opposed to PD's 96), so that helps a lot. Are you getting
DIO errors?  I've found in some of the later versions of PD that I
sometimes get a crackling in audio with no DIO errors and low CPU usage,
and I'm not sure why.  Can you run other reasonably low utilization apps
simultaneously with your patch without problem or is it just GrIPD? At any
rate, there are a few things you might try: You can increase the PD GrIPD
object's poll times by sending "poll_send" and "poll_receive" messages
with an integer argument specifying the poll time in milliseconds (see
gripd.pd). You can also try changing the poll time of the GrIPD GUI: in
gripdMain.py, change line 89 where it says

SOCKETTIMERTIME = 5

to some larger integer (milliseconds). I supposed I could add this as a
feature.  Also, I'm not sure, but using a non-bitmap GTK theme might help.
I've also found, from purely a voodoo standpoint, that opening the GrIPD
GUI before I start audio seems to help.

I hope this helps. Let me know how things go.

Joe
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On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Michal Seta wrote:

> On 9/4/01 10:23 AM, "Bill Sack" <wsack at acsu.buffalo.edu> wrote:
>
> > hi,
> >
> > have you tried running pd suid root and using the -rt flag? i was having
> > similar problems until i did so. there was a short thread on the list a
> > while ago about suid root and how-to.
> >
>
> well, somehow it doesn't work for me (suid trick.  I get a message saying
> that I'm not running as root.  I did chmod trick as root).
> But I did run it as root with -rt switch (in fact I forgot to mention it in
> my previous message as I was anticipating this suggestion).  I would like to
> use a cute gui :|.
>
> BTW, did you guys know that the search utility on the mailing list site
> doesn't work?
>
> BTW(2), is pd and iemlib in sync now?
>
> thanks.
>
> ./MiS
>
>