On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 7:39 AM, garryo <garry.ogle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > 512 of ram! with a gigasampler file... just buy 4GB of ram for $40 and don't worry about it again? Loki _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user