Re: [sc-dev] idle scsynth CPU usage

[Joshua Parmenter <joshp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Also... this is using just internal hardware... nothing is hooked up,  
computer plugged in with highest performance setting for the CPU.

Thanks,

Josh

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Joshua Parmenter
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Post-Doctoral Research Associate - Center for Digital Arts and  
Experimental Media
Raitt Hall - University of Washington
Seattle, Washington 98195

http://www.dxarts.washington.edu
http://www.realizedsound.net/josh/


On Jan 7, 2006, at 9:29 PM, Joshua Parmenter wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I've been noticing something strange with scsynth (this is after  
> all the other CPU strangeness that has been happening appears to  
> have worked itself out). Basically, I noticed in Activity Monitor  
> and top that simply starting scsynth has it running at 8% of the  
> CPU with nothing happening. The server window reports 0.2%. This is  
> on one of the 1.67 GHz PowerBooks. Either way... a recent build on  
> my old machine (1.5 GHz PB) shows about 1% in Activity Monitor. I  
> just did a fresh build... I'm wondering if anyone else sees  
> anything like this in a new build? And if so... is this perhaps a  
> recent change that has done this? Or is it my machine that is  
> causing the problem... which based on my experiences over the past  
> couple days wouldn't surprise me!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Josh
>
>
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> Joshua Parmenter
> joshp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Post-Doctoral Research Associate - Center for Digital Arts and  
> Experimental Media
> Raitt Hall - University of Washington
> Seattle, Washington 98195
>
> http://www.dxarts.washington.edu
> http://www.realizedsound.net/josh/
>
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