On Thu, 7 Jun 2018, Mac wrote:
So, I was running a old version of Ardour on ubuntustudio 16.04.
Which is old... use 18.04
I updated to Ardour 5.1.2. When the Ardour install file (.run) ran it warned me that I should turn off frequency scaling. After some googling it appears UBS doesn't ship with any of the typical tools one would use to adjust the cpu frequency. Most of the search results talk about installing gnome applets and other stuff. Seem to me a distro that is targeted at such cpu intense usage would have facilities to manage this. So, before I go off on an apt spree, I figured I ask if I'm missing something.
No you are not missing something :) The ubuntustudio-controls in 18.04 does include cpu governor setting, 16.04 does not. The same application for 18.10 does a lot more and also allows Boost to be shut off.
Some things to be aware of: - I don't know about debian in general, but Ubuntu sets Ondemand or Powersave at boot... about 60 seconds after everything else. This means that cpufrequtils sets performance at boot and then ondemand sets it back 60 sec later. Ondemand in /etc/rc*.d needs to be disabled - cpu governing does not seem to affect audio with buffer size greater than 64. - at low latency Boost also affects audio and should be truned off. It seems to be the change in cpu speed that causes trouble as I have run a cpu fixed at 800mhz with no trouble as compared to 1.6 Ghz on the same machine with Ondemand and xruns. -- Len Ovens www.ovenwerks.net _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
