[PD] how to optimize system for pd performance?

Frank Barknecht fbar at footils.org
Sun Dec 7 20:14:51 CET 2008


Hallo,
Roman Haefeli hat gesagt: // Roman Haefeli wrote:

> i encountered, that 'ondemand' cpu scaling doesn't work correctly when
> running pd with realtime priority. even if pd is using 80% or more
> resources (of one core), the cpu frequency is not raised and staying at
> 800MHz. i can force it to go up by running an instance of 'burnMMX' (or
> something else, that burns as many cycles as possible). when running pd
> with '-nrt', automatic scaling works fine. also, as a workaround, i can
> set the scaling_governor to 'userspace' and then set the cpu frequency
> manually. 

I don't remember being hit by this, but my memory may trick me. I'd use
cpufreq-set(1) as root to switch the scaling governor to "performance"
when performing. 

Ciao
-- 
Frank




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