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I’m interested in this because lately I’ve been using an rpi4 with Surge XT, a great open source softsynth. The sound engine itself is not cpu bound in most sce
by smodo 3y ago
I’m interested in this because lately I’ve been using an rpi4 with Surge XT, a great open source softsynth. The sound engine itself is not cpu bound in most scenarios. The pi can be brought to its knees with a lot of voices and effects but that is to be expected.
What baffles me is that it randomly drops a ton of UDP packages, fails to read/write disk and randomly experiences high load only to quiet down later. Basically it seems like it really sucks at i/o. Might there be a benefit to using FreeBSD in this scenario?
- kstrauser 3y agoWhatever the OS, if you’re still using the internal SD card, upgrade to an SSD ASAP. The SD card has terrible random IO. When I switched, I saw routine tasks like “apt update” drop from a minute or so to a few seconds. That’s with a high quality SD card, too. I don’t have it nearby at the moment, but it was one of the ones the RPi website recommended.
- binary132 3y agoI was able to get a cheap external m.2/pcie3 USB3 enclosure with a WD blue running with zero effort as my boot disk. Haven’t benched it yet...
- justin66 3y ago> cheap external m.2/pcie3 USB3 enclosure A note for when you have problems: that’s the cause. Name brand, high quality USB SSDs are the way to go.