[PD] Startup times to run Pd patch on Raspberry Pi

[Yann Seznec]

Thanks for all the thoughts and feedback. I should have said that my 60 second boot time is when I use the Pi headless, console-only, running the patch with -nogui. 

I’ll have a look at disabling some things as suggested, and I’ll report back if I make any significant progress! I imagine I’m not alone in this quest so I’ll try and document it somehow, or at least post it here for future generations.

I really like the look of piCore OS too. It seems like the right approach for me in the long run, though I am wary of jumping into a new system. Maybe eventually we can make our own pdCore OS :)



> On Oct 5, 2020, at 5:27 PM, Thomas Grill <gr at grrrr.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> i am a big fan of the piCore os. [1]
> That is a stripped down read-only linux distro with loadable modules for alsa, pure data etc..
> Boot times are considerable shorter than with raspbian.
> Of course it also needs some dedication to get used with it.
> 
> I have compiled pd, jack and libfftw3 for piCore 11, to be found here:
> https://grrrr.org/data/dev/picore/piCore-11/
> 
> best, Thomas
> 
> [1] http://tinycorelinux.net/11.x/armv6/releases/RPi/
> 
>> Am 05.10.2020 um 17:05 schrieb Martin Peach <chakekatzil at gmail.com>:
>> 
>> It takes about a minute for the pi to boot. There is not much you can
>> do about that.
>> 
>> Martiin
>> 
>> On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 11:03 AM Yann Seznec <yann at yannseznec.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi everyone, long time reader first time writer.
>>> 
>>> I’m wondering what people’s experiences are with regards to the startup time for running a patch on a raspberry pi.
>>> 
>>> For various reasons I’ve started to use Patchbox OS to auto-run my patches on startup, which is very reliable and consistent however it usually takes about 60 seconds from switching on to making sound. This is on various models of Raspberry Pi 3.
>>> 
>>> Has anyone managed to speed this up? I haven’t tried the Raspi 4, perhaps that is significantly faster?
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Yann
>>> 
>>> 
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