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
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