[LAU] dualcore and audio software

[Ken Restivo]

On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 04:30:54PM +0200, Atte Andr? Jensen wrote:
> Ken Restivo wrote:
> 
> > It has been a while since I set up my dual-core system, but IIRC
> > there was some kind of load-distributing daemon which I had to turn
> > off in order to get audio to work properly.
> 
> I'd be most interested in anything getting me closer to that. Could you 
> recall a bit more so I have something to throw at google? Or maybe 
> others could supply more info regarding this?
> 

IIRC, it was called "irqbalance". I had to disable it.

Also remember to turn off cpufreq, by either unloading the cpufreq modules, or setting them manually, i.e. "sudo cpufreq-set -g userspace; sudo cpufreq-set -f xxxxx" (set it to the max clock of your CPUs).

-ken