Thanks for that, although I've already changed that and I don't really know where to go from here. The uncommented bit is: @audio - rtprio 99 @audio - memlock unlimited @audio - nice -10 Any ideas? This was from a post which I can no longer find. Jonty On Thu, 22 May 2008, Remon Sijrier wrote: > Hi, > > I've seen this kind of behavior before when RT privileges wasn't setup > (correctly). Default Ubuntu doesn't alter the /etc/security/limits.conf you > might have a look at that? > > Regards, > > Remon > > On Thursday 22 May 2008 10:01:23 J M Needham wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > So, I've just upgraded to Ubuntu HH, and I'm using the Linux > > 2.6.24-17-rt #1 SMP PREEMPT RT kernel on a toshiba laptop with dual core > > 2.6 GHz processors and 2G of ram, and an intel HDA > > > > I have compiled Ardour 2.4.1 from source with FREESOUND=1 as my only > > option. My first problem is that it's using 74% of my CPU just sitting > > there. [Anyone else find this?] > > > > I've checked that my system corresponds to this page > > http://tapas.affenbande.org/wordpress/?page_id=40 (as this was how I used > > to have it set up) and it corresponds, but I'm getting 5% CPU usage from > > Jack just sitting doing nothing. > > > > Anyone got any ideas? > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Linux-audio-user mailing list > > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user