Julien Claassen wrote: > Hi everyone! > I just fooled around with LinuxSampler and ecasound, my favourite recording > tool. And I wonder: > is a system with 512M of memory and a 2.8gHz supposed to handle a running LS > and recording at the same time. When I stress LS alone (no recording started) > I can get it up to about 20-28% CPU usage and memory usage of LS was 82%. > There's no GUI on my system and not much else which is eating at the CPU and > memory. The other CPU costs are minimal, estimate of 4-6%. > If that kind of system is supposed to handel my demands, I should look for > troublemakers, because LS gave me glitches while recording. > Kindest regards > Julien > > -------- > Music was my first love and it will be my last (John Miles) > > ======== FIND MY WEB-PROJECT AT: ======== > http://ltsb.sourceforge.net > the Linux TextBased Studio guide > ======= AND MY PERSONAL PAGES AT: ======= > http://www.juliencoder.de hi, julien. i use linuxsampler but with the qsampler gui, so i did a test using qps to get the stats. my box is also 2.8 ghz but i have 1.5G of ram. at idle linuxsampler ( not including gui ) uses 1% cpu maximum. if i bang up and down on as many keys as i can with both forearms cpu use reaches 22%. memory use obviously depends on the size of the loaded soundfont. if i load the biggest font i have - maestro grand piano v2 - memory use is 187M, again not including gui. with 512M of ram and no X running this should not stress your system. are you using a really big soundfont? is ecasound using a lot of ram at idle? G. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
