[PD] pd using 25% cpu when opened

Si Mills smills at rootsix.net
Wed Jan 20 17:38:21 CET 2010


Hi,  

currently in Jack mode it does the reverse -  Turn dsp off and the cpu rises!

S

On 20 Jan 2010, at 16:06, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

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> Yup, try profiling it with Shark.  Basically, its 25% CPU time of idle calls... if you use Jack, this goes down to a couple percent.  Or try the "callback" function in the audio config.
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> .hc
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> On Jan 20, 2010, at 9:18 AM, Rich E wrote:
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>> I just noticed that when I open pd, without a patch and with default settings, it uses 25% cpu according to the Activity Monitor.  If I turn on dsp then turn it back off, it drops to almost nothing.
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>> I'm running OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.  I first noticed this using the 0.43 devel branch, but then experienced the same thing using the 0.42-5 dmg from Miller's website.  Anyone else experiencing this?
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>> rich
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