On Mon, 28 Jul 2014 23:22:48 +0100 James Stone <jamesmstone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I then removed this and had a poke around in the bios, and found that > the main culprits for the xruns were C6 mode, and "AMD Power Now". > Disabling these, and I now have an xrun-free experience with > frames/period = 32/2 with pulseaudio/jack on my Scarlett 2i4, which is > pretty amazing for a USB device IMO! That's very amazing indeed. But to be sure try to run hackbench too, and see if it's xrun free under load too. You can also run jack_iodelay and connect the output to the input on your soundcard (turn speakers off as it might also produce feedback depending on how the card is configured). This ought to tell you the realworld latency, which many times can be a lot bigger then that given by buffersizes alone, due to "hidden" hardware buffers and the delay introduced by the digital to analog conversion itself. > There was also CPD mode and CState Pmin, which I disabled initially, > but these don't seem to have any impact on xruns on my system. Cstate > pmin seems to affect the reported DSP load - but otherwise doesn't > affect xruns - so I think it's safe to keep on (and maybe is saving > some power??). CPD mode doesn't seem to have any impact at all. I suppose you could monitor the cpus temperature and if you see a decrease in temperature, it most likely corresponds to lower power consumption. -- Joakim _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
