Re: [LAU] Focusrite Saffire Pro 40 - reliable?

On Tue, 3 Mar 2015, alexus / dotcommon wrote: 48k, synced to my 48K s/pdif preamp as happens. Because I want my audio card ICE1712 to be higher priority than my MIDI card which also has an audio portion (snd_ens1370) Really I could (and should remove USB from the list as there is nothing on USB that needs to be prioritized. The stock rtirq tries to be rightish no matter what audio IF the user plugs in, but boosting ones mouse priority above the hard drive and ethernet does not really make sense :) I do the same thing on my netbook by setting "usb3 snd usb" to push the usb3 port (where my audio IF sits with a clear irq) to a higher priority than the SD reader, internal camera and whatever else Acer decided to hook up to USB internally. The snd in there is for internal audio when I use that. (generally output only) Cron runs at maximum niceness, but checking for new SW does a lot of disk read/write and network traffic. Turning cron off seems to get rid of some of those odd spaced spurious xruns. Some people turn off auto updates instead, and do those manually. Cups is not as bad as the win print servers used to be (everything stopped while the windows system printed a page) but I don't run that either. When I was running the P4 with low memory I tried to think of anything that might give trouble and went for the quietest system I could. The app I use is a script for the most part (actually a collection of scripts) and can change everything on the fly. But it is jackdbus centric which some people just don't like. I could probably make it jackd(1/2) if I really felt like it, but I don't :) No solid reason, just my bent. -- Len Ovens www.ovenwerks.net