[PD] threads with -rt

[padawan12]

Isn't the way to solve this problem to preallocate some space
and have sndfiler read into that, then swap the pointer?


On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 18:19:36 +0200
Tim Blechmann <tim at klingt.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 17:53 +0200, Davide Morelli wrote:
> > >
> > > there's 2 externals in cvs called:
> > > tb/sndfiler
> > > grh/threadlib
> > >
> > 
> > yeah, I use them, but I'm still having xruns problems, and I wonder if it is 
> > normal or not..
> > 
> > do you get xruns loading a "normally" large soundfile (let' say a  16 
> > seconds stereo wav file) while playing?
> > 
> > I suspect that the sndfiler thread is still too high (i start pd with 
> > the -rt flag).. i didn't mess with priorities or NICE levels, I only 
> > installed the ccrma rdt kernel and start jackd with -R and pd with -rt
> 
> i doubt, it's related to the soundfiler thread ... but rather to pd's
> need to recompile the dsp chain, when the location of an array in memory
> changes ... 
> so, when loading a soundfile, it will be read to memory in the helper
> thread, but the recompilation of the dsp chain still needs to be
> synchronous ... so there you have the dropouts ... 
> so either "you don't want to load soundfiles during the performance" or
> "you don't want to use soundfiles in your performance, use synthesis
> instead" or "use miller's upsampling hack" ...
> 
> the only advantage of the sndfiler is, that it's able to read more file
> formats, since it's using libsndfile ...
> 
> for the dropouts, blame pd, not sndfiler ...
> 
> cheers ... tim
> 
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