[LAU] [Bulk] Re: Audacity on Ubuntu 14.04 is REALLY unstable

[Will Godfrey]

On Mon, 18 Aug 2014 22:08:24 -0400
Alan McKay <alan.mckay at gmail.com> wrote:

> Interesting.
> 
> So I was doing some googling to try to find out some technical details
> on what is involved in the low latency kernel , and I came across this
> to start with.
> 
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/126664/why-to-choose-low-latency-kernel-over-generic-or-realtime-ones
> 
> As I was reading I was curious as to my CPU power, so I opened a shell
> to run "lshw".  As soon as I hit "enter" my rip stopped in the usual
> fashion, but then everything on my desktop slowed right down.  My
> mouse was moving in slow-motion.  I tried typing this and it was
> missing letters (since rebooted).
> 
> So it seems basically that my system is underpowered, I guess.  I have
> 4 cores, and this is from lshw.  Maybe I need a real sound card too?
> 
> 
>          description: CPU
>           product: AMD A8-5600K APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics
>           vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
>           physical id: 35
>           bus info: cpu at 0
>           version: AMD A8-5600K APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics
>           slot: P0
>           size: 1400MHz
>           capacity: 3600MHz
>           width: 64 bits
>           clock: 100MHz

Something is really, really weird about your entire setup. You shouldn't need
to jump through all those hoops. I've never had issues like that, not even on
an old single core 32  bit athlon.

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