[PD] -rt w/ pd-extended on OS X

[William Brent]

Hi Ben,

For what it's worth, I just tested a patch running steady at 85% with
0.41.4-extended, and realtime reliably gives me values between
992-1008ms for a [delay 1000].  This is on a 2.5Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo,
4GB, OS 10.5.8.



On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 10:25 PM, B. Bogart <ben at ekran.org> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I've been running a patch on an intel mac for a while, but noticed some
> horrid timing problems [delay 1000] takes ~3000ms according to [realtime].
> The patch uses between 50% and 105% CPU according to top.
>
> I've not got it down to about ~1500ms, but I can't pull back the patch any
> further, and top says it using only 50-64% CPU...
>
> I realized I was not using -rt, but when I try and run pd-extended (sorry I
> don't recall the version, probably the stable one as of Sept 2009) pd does
> not start in -rt mode, I get no messages from stdout or the console like I
> do in linux to tell me about priority scheduling.
>
> Are there versions of pd-extended for OSX where -rt works? How do I set it.
>
> I tried:
>
> -rt in "startup flags"
>
> sudo /Application/Pd-extended/.../bin/pd -rt
>
> sudo su
> /Application/Pd-extended/.../bin/pd -rt
>
> And nothing works.
>
> So what have I missed? Or what Pd should I be using?
>
> Thanks,
> B. Bogart
>
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