[PD] Pd with Jack, CPU usage% strangeness

[ClaudiusMaximus]

I'm running Jack in realtime mode as a normal user with the
lowlatency+capabilities PlanetCCRMA kernel.

$ jackstart --verbose --realtime --driver alsa --device hw:0 --rate
44100 --period 128 --nperiods 2 --playback --dither shaped

I'm using CVS Pd devel with CVS IEMLIB and 0.7.6 release Gridflow.

I start Pd, and CPU usage* goes up to 45% (from 8% without Pd running,
some other apps are busy).  This is with no patches open and audio off.

Now the strange bit:

I turn audio on in the Pd main window, and CPU usage drops back down to
10%!

Turn audio off again, back up to 45%.  Somehow having Pd audio off uses
up 35% of my CPU time

What is going on here??



* CPU usage measured with the Gnome panel applet System Monitor 2.2.0.

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$ cat .pdrc
-verbose
-jack
-noadc
-audiobuf 2 -blocksize 64 -sleepgrain 10
-midiindev 1 -midioutdev 1
-path /home/claude/claudiusmaximus
-lib
/home/claude/public/development/pure-data-devel/pd/externals/gridflow-lib/gridflow
-path
/home/claude/public/development/pure-data-devel/pd/externals/gridflow-abstractions
-lib
/home/claude/public/development/pure-data-devel/pd/externals/iem-lib/iemlib1
-lib
/home/claude/public/development/pure-data-devel/pd/externals/iem-lib/iemlib2
-lib
/home/claude/public/development/pure-data-devel/pd/externals/iem-lib/iem_mp3
-lib
/home/claude/public/development/pure-data-devel/pd/externals/iem-lib/iem_t3_lib
-path
/home/claude/public/development/pure-data-devel/pd/externals/iem-abstractions

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$ /home/claude/public/development/pure-data-devel/pd/bin/pd
reading startup file: /home/claude/.pdrc
sys_audioapi 5
Pd version 0.37.1 devel
compiled 19:56:47 Jul 10 2004
port 5400
Waiting for connection request...
TCL_LIBRARY="/home/claude/public/development/pure-data-devel/pd/tcl/library" TK_LIBRARY="/home/claude/public/development/pure-data-devel/pd/tk/library"  "/home/claude/public/development/pure-data-devel/pd/bin/pd-gui" 5400
... connected
pd_startgui : updater thread 16386 launched
global soundfiler thread launched, priority: 0
Soundfiler sleeping
device 1: tried /dev/midi READ/WRITE; returned -1
device 0: tried /dev/midi00 READ/WRITE; returned 7
opened 1 MIDI input device(s) and 1 MIDI output device(s).
input channels = 0, output channels = 2
tried
/home/claude/public/development/pure-data-devel/pd/externals/gridflow-lib/gridflow.pd_linux and succeeded
setting up Ruby-for-PureData...
(done)
[gf] This is GridFlow 0.7.6 within Ruby version 1.8.1
[gf] base/main.c was compiled on Jul 10 2004, 22:03:57
[gf] startup_cpu: using MMX optimisations
tried
/home/claude/public/development/pure-data-devel/pd/externals/iem-lib/iemlib1.pd_linux and succeeded
iemlib1 (R-1.15) library loaded!
tried
/home/claude/public/development/pure-data-devel/pd/externals/iem-lib/iemlib2.pd_linux and succeeded
iemlib2 (R-1.15) library loaded!
tried
/home/claude/public/development/pure-data-devel/pd/externals/iem-lib/iem_mp3.pd_linux and succeeded
iem_mp3 (R-1.15) library loaded!
tried
/home/claude/public/development/pure-data-devel/pd/externals/iem-lib/iem_t3_lib.pd_linux and succeeded
iem_t3_lib (R-1.15) library loaded!

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