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>> When I use the medium quality libsamplerate resampler with mpd, my CPU |
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>> is around 15% and all is well. When I try to use the best quality |
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>> resampler, the CPU stays around 99% and the sound frequently falls |
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>> apart. Can I give mpd CPU priority? |
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> Yes, it's usually done via nice/renice commands: |
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> renice -n -10 -p `pgrep mpd` |
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> You can tune it's priority up to -20 (most real-time priority). |
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> I'd suggest looking at load-average it generates ("top" shows it, at the |
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> top)) first. |
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> After running mpd for 15 minutes or so, if any of the three (5/10/15) |
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> will go above number of physical CPU cores you have (and that's |
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> probably the case if you see full load at any given time), tuning it's |
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> priority up will make the rest of the system extremely sluggish, since |
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> mpd won't let any other process to execute and just doing "ls" may take |
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> ages, not to mention whole X operation... |
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Thanks Mike. I tried: |
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renice -20 -p `pgrep mpd` |
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but my Athlon 2.2Ghz still can't handle it for more than a few |
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seconds. I don't have SMP enabled because of a bug in madwifi, and |
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I'm hoping when I get that fixed I'll be able to run the best |
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libsamplerate resampler. Any other ideas for making this work? |
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- Grant |
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