hello,
i've recently installed ubuntustudio in parallel with osx on my macbook pro.
ubuntu is basically running fine but i'm having troubles getting it to
perform equally well as in osx. i'm mainly using supercollider and i have an
edirol fa-101 firewire interface. ubuntu resp. the preinstalled
ffado-drivers detected the interface immediately and i could use it with
supercollider (via jackd(mp)) easily. however, the performance is by far not
as good as under osx. a simple test-patch in supercollider that was
consuming about 30% cpu max. in osx (tested withcoreaudio as well as jack,
started via jackrouter) was quickly using up to 100% in linux, producing
lots and lots of xruns.
after asking on the supercollider-mailinglist someone pointed me to this
address:
http://wiki.linuxmusicians.com/doku.php?id=system_configuration
where i found this test:
https://github.com/raboof/realtimeconfigquickscan
after executing the test i followed the recommended steps to tune my system.
this is the current state:
== GUI-enabled checks ==
Checking if you are root... no - good
Checking filesystem 'noatime' parameter... found - warning
/media/exchange does not have the 'noatime' parameter set
/media/satellite does not have the 'noatime' parameter set
/media/scratch does not have the 'noatime' parameter set
/media/burn does not have the 'noatime' parameter set
/media/G4 does not have the 'noatime' parameter set
/media/emergency does not have the 'noatime' parameter set
For more information, see
http://wiki.linuxmusicians.com/doku.php?id=system_configuration#filesystems
Checking CPU Governors... CPU 0: 'ondemand' CPU 1: 'ondemand' - not
good
Set CPU Governors to 'performance' with 'cpufreq-set -c <cpunr> -g
performance'
My first guess is that this might be the culprit. So you might want to
try setting it to performance.
Regards,
Jeremy