On Sat, 3 Nov 2012 08:43:11 -0700 "Len Ovens" <len@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Playing with PCI_latency made things worse for me, no gain and an > unstable machine. This will have no effect whatever on PCIe cards. Okay, so I only will unbind 2 USB ports. FWIW some things need to be done in a different way, than it's described by "linuxmusicians" and stopping networking does cause trouble. I couldn't find out how to unbind the 2 USB ports. spinymouse@qrc:/mnt/music/quantal/01song$ sudo bash tuning [sudo] password for spinymouse: bluetooth stop/waiting network-manager stop/waiting cups stop/waiting tuning: line 28: echo: write error: No such device tuning: line 29: echo: write error: No such device ############################## $ /etc/init.d/rtirq status PID CLS RTPRIO NI PRI %CPU STAT COMMAND 62 FF 90 - 130 0.0 S irq/8-rtc0 896 FF 85 - 125 0.0 S irq/18-snd_hdsp 54 FF 80 - 120 0.0 S irq/19-ehci_hcd 55 FF 80 - 120 0.0 S irq/16-ohci_hcd 56 FF 79 - 119 0.3 S irq/17-ohci_hcd 58 FF 78 - 118 0.0 S irq/18-ohci_hcd 59 FF 78 - 118 0.0 S irq/17-ohci_hcd 60 FF 77 - 117 0.0 S irq/18-ohci_hcd 61 FF 75 - 115 0.0 S irq/1-i8042 24 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/9-acpi 46 FF 50 - 90 0.1 S irq/22-ahci 257 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/14-pata_ati 258 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/15-pata_ati 695 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/7-parport0 818 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/43-radeon 3 FF 1 - 41 0.1 S ksoftirqd/0 15 FF 1 - 41 0.1 S ksoftirqd/1 $ cat /proc/interrupts | grep 18: 18: 0 2 IO-APIC-fasteoi ohci_hcd:usb4, ohci_hcd:usb6, snd_hdspm Sat Nov 3 21:32:46 CET 2012 - 3.6.5-rt14 - Ubuntu 12.10 \n \l spinymouse@qrc:/mnt/music/quantal/01song$ cat -n tuning 1 #!/bin/bash 2 3 # sudo bash tuning - Ubuntu Studio Quantal 4 # 2012/Nov/03 5 6 ### http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/PCI_Latency 7 ### http://wiki.linuxmusicians.com/doku.php?id=system_configuration#pci_bus_latency 8 9 ### Bluetooth 10 service bluetooth stop 11 12 ### Network 13 service network-manager stop 14 #service networking stop # does cause serious issues 15 modprobe -r r8169 # Ethernet NIC driver 16 17 ### TerraTec EWX 24/96 18 modprobe -r snd_ice1712 19 20 ### Others 21 modprobe -r firewire-ohci 22 modprobe -r firewire_core 23 service cups stop 24 modprobe -r ppdev # parallel port 25 modprobe -r lp # printer 26 27 ### Unbinding devices 28 echo -n "0000:00/0000:00:13.2" > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ohci_hcd/unbind 29 echo -n "0000:00/0000:00:13.4" > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ohci_hcd/unbind 30 31 ### Log file 32 l="log/tuning.log" 33 #echo "$ lspci -v " > $l 34 #lspci -v >> $l 35 #echo >> $l 36 echo "$ /etc/init.d/rtirq status " > $l 37 /etc/init.d/rtirq status >> $l 38 echo >> $l 39 echo "$ cat /proc/interrupts | grep 18:" >> $l 40 cat /proc/interrupts | grep 18: >> $l 41 echo -n $(date)" - "$(uname -r)" - " >> $l 42 cat /etc/issue >> $l 43 echo "##############################" ; cat $l 44 45 exit 0 46 Regards, Ralf PS: Btw. sudo echo foo > /sys/... doesn't work, it has to be echo foo | sudo tee /sys/... sudo bash -c "echo foo > /sys/..." ;) _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user