OK right now I'm using the live DVD puredyne. It comes with csound64 and pd pre-installed. I couldn't get the sound to work properly on my mac but on the PC it seems fine. Best Peiman 2008/9/20 Brian Redfern > yeah top is great for seeing exactly what is happening "behind the scenes" > on the mac. > > > On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 6:22 PM, peiman khosravi > wrote: > >> OK I just tried the top command (btw I didn't know about it, great >> command!). >> When running csound with blue, the only other programme that is >> using significant CPU is java actually, but only about 5%. At the point >> where csound glitches csound's usage suddenly goes up to over 90% CPU. So it >> seems like I need more ram! I'm surprised at how much CPU firefox is using >> (just tried it as a test), up to 29%! Not surprising then that when I have >> the manual page open csound performs so much worst! >> >> I'll do more tests in the morning... >> >> Thanks >> Peiman >> >> On 20 Sep 2008, at 02:01, Brian Redfern wrote: >> >> Yeah I don't think that's the issue so much as something else messing with >> your sound performance, what I would do is run the 'top" command from the >> bash shell and see what is taking all the resources, then you can see if >> something else is stealing your cpu away from csound. >> >> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 5:55 PM, peiman khosravi < >> peimankhosravi@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi >>> >>> I tried this once but the problem is that it doesn't support any graphics >>> at all. So I won't be able to run blue or even a text editor (as far as I >>> know anyway). I'm just downloading this: >>> http://code.goto10.org/projects/puredyne/ >>> >>> Looks very very exiting!! You can run it from USB key as well which if >>> it works will be awesome. Next have to see if blue is installable on it! >>> >>> Best >>> Peiman >>> >>> >>> On 19 Sep 2008, at 19:20, kCk wrote: >>> >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> peiman wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> It would be nice to be able to run osx in unix mode without the >>>>> desktop >>>>> though!!! >>>>> >>>>> you could try logging in as ">console". i have not tried this but have >>>> heard >>>> that it works with some versions of OSX. if you only need the command >>>> line >>>> for what you are doing this should give you more resources. >>>> later. >>>> kurt >>>> -- >>>> View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/real-time- >>>> performance-optimization-on-powerbook-pro....-tp19571293p19577282.html >>>> Sent from the Csound - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Send bugs reports to this list. >>>> To unsubscribe, send email sympa@lists.bath.ac.uk with body >>>> "unsubscribe csound" >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Send bugs reports to this list. >>> To unsubscribe, send email sympa@lists.bath.ac.uk with body "unsubscribe >>> csound" >>> >> >> >> >