Steven Yi wrote:

> I was doing a test of WinXP vs. Linux and I found that there was a
> SIGNIFICANT difference in render times, with WinXP running order of
> magnitudes faster (approximately 5 times faster).  This seemed way out
> of expected performance so I went to check on Linux and found that
> yes, it was much slower when writing to disk.  I checked top and found
> that there was a process "gam_server" running and competing for CPU
> cycles.  Looking around it seems that gam_server is a part of gamin,
> the gname file notifcation program, and that it would take about 20%
> with csound taking up the other percentage.  My guess is that for
> every write to disk from csound, gamin is doing a notify and slowing
> down the render (I hope that is the case).
> 
> Anyone have experiences like this?

Perhaps kill gam_server ?


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How about not running Gnome?
==John ffitch


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jpff@codemist.co.uk wrote:
> How about not running Gnome?
> ==John ffitch

I'm running fluxbox and have been really happy with it for csound. You 
can still have gnome and kde installed in order to run apps that need 
them, but when you aren't running anything except csound, it works great 
and is very lightweight. Heck I even use the gnome terminal. And I love 
fluxbox for dev stuff, the docking tabs are so handy, you get lots of 
data on screen, and adding keybindings to jump around is dead simple.

attached is my process list ( with mozilla and a term open. )

Iain

> I tried with KDE and found gam_server gets reopened even if you kill
> it.  I noticed though that rendering while in kde or in gnome, even
> though gam_server is running on both, it doesn't seem to do much in
> kde as in gnome, and that the tests varied very little in render
> times.

I don't have gam_server running at all on flux box, you might want to 
try it, while I like the look and feel of gnome for regular day to day 
use, flux box is really nice for coding. It can still run gnome and kde 
apps though, from flux box. The dyne:bolic distro uses window maker or 
flux box.

Iain


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On Nov 20, 2005, at 7:10 PM, Steven Yi wrote:

> However, I tried again on WinXP to render and got a fast render time
> but then realized that there was a segfault somewhere;

What causes this ? Can you post an example .csd file ?


-David



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> Thanks for the recommendation; I've used fluxbox,. openbox, and
> variants before but never found myself comfortable with them.  I've
> been using gnome for years now and find myself very used to it and
> generally satisfied.  There were also issues with blue that only
> showed up with fluxbox a few years ago that lead me not to use it
> then, and just haven't felt the need to do otherwise since.

What were the issues? ( Just curious. )

Iain



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Steven Yi wrote:

>Hi Iain,
>
>Thanks for the recommendation; I've used fluxbox,. openbox, and
>variants before but never found myself comfortable with them.  I've
>been using gnome for years now and find myself very used to it and
>generally satisfied.  There were also issues with blue that only
>showed up with fluxbox a few years ago that lead me not to use it
>then, and just haven't felt the need to do otherwise since.
>
>steven
>  
>
>  
>
Greetings:

  I'll second Iain's recommendations. I use the Blackbox WM exclusively 
on my Red Hat systems, Fluxbox on my AGNULA machine. All my machines are 
perpetually underpowered, I've never been able to afford a 
state-of-the-art machine, so low resource consumption has always been a 
factor here at Studio Dave. In my pompous opinion GNOME and KDE and very 
nice-looking hogs, though I'll bet they dance nicely after a couple 
gigahertz. :)

Best,

dp






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