[PD] PD and latency on kernel 2.6.14.2-lsm

[derek holzer]

Hi Wade,

thewade wrote:

> How do I tune PD to run as fast as possible?

I'm sure you have a lot of these covered already!

* Run as root (or with LSM).
* Run with the -rt flag.
* Ditch Gnome and use something super-lightweight like fluxbox.
* Make sure there is no IRQ conflicts between your graphics card, sound 
card and peripherals:
--> http://tinyurl.com/7vhmc
* Using a shared-memory graphics card, such as the Intel chipset Frank 
Barknecht discussed with Ed Kelly this week, is reported by RME to cause 
dropouts:
--> http://tinyurl.com/dcdvk
* Also look into your hard drive access times if any disk activity needs 
to happen during performance:
--> http://tinyurl.com/cedtl
* Realtime, low latency kernel patches (does not apply to PPC achitecture!)
* Check out Linux Security Mode patches to run RT as non-root.
* Don't use frequently-updated graphics in your patches (i.e. VU meters 
or number boxes connected to a fast stream of numbers, etc etc).
* Run one instance of pd -noaudio for your GUI, and use OSC to 
communicate with another instance of pd -nogui for your DSP. The poor 
man's multithreading!
* Only start PD with as many ALSA/JACK channels as you need.
* Consider using -nodac/-noadc if they are not needed.

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