[PD] [solved] glitches when streaming UDP

[katja]

Found this in the archives, maybe it is somewhat similar: in the early
Raspberry Pi days core switching seemed to be a problem for Pd and it could
be solved by using 'taskset'. See:

https://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2015-02/109189.html

The CPU switching problem went away 'by itself' after a Raspbian update,
but it was probably hardware specific.

On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 12:31 AM, katja <katjavetter at gmail.com> wrote:

> What happens when running Pd with option -nosleep? I vaguely remember
> having problems with CPU scaling which could be 'resolved' with that
> option. People smarter than me pointed to other solutions where you could
> reserve a specific core for the Pd process. But I'm unable to retrieve that
> information.
>
> On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 12:08 AM, Roman Haefeli <reduzent at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Die, 2018-01-30 at 23:31 +0100, Dan Wilcox wrote:
>> > I agree. I recorded 8 channel multitrack from Pd to Ardour using a
>> > single core Thinkpad back in the day with no drop outs.
>> >
>> > You could try running Pd with a different nice level. Even though it
>> > has "realtime priority" it sometimes helps to cue the scheduler a
>> > little more directly.
>>
>> 'pd -rt -jack' runs with a nice level of 0, so does jackd and ardour. I
>> tried giving it higher priority up (or should I say: down?) to -10, but
>> it didn't change the situation. Also, it seems  to me that it's not a
>> problem of priorities between several processes. The fact that burning
>> CPU cycles with _another_ process helps makes me think the problem
>> rather is that resources are not made ready quickly enough.
>>
>> Roman
>>
>>
>> > > On Jan 30, 2018, at 11:21 PM, pd-list-request at lists.iem.at wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Interestingly, setting CPU scaling governor to performance is not
>> > > enough for Pd (it is for other applications, though). When doing
>> > > that
>> > > for each core, they all run at maximum speed. However, it doesn't
>> > > help
>> > > with making Pd glitch free. I really have to put some load on
>> > > them.
>> > >
>> > > This confirms what I suspected for while now: The advanced power
>> > > saving
>> > > features of modern CPUs don't really help for realtime audio.
>> > >
>> > > I wonder what softwares like Ardour do differently to not fall
>> > > victim
>> > > of aggressive power saving.
>> > >
>> > > Having a constantly running fan is also not an ideal situation. I
>> > > don't
>> > > care about increased power consumption at this point.  Maybe there
>> > > is a
>> > > less invasive way to keep the CPU busy?
>> > --------
>> > Dan Wilcox
>> > @danomatika
>> > danomatika.com
>> > robotcowboy.com
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
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