CPU optimization in Mainstage

Hi Everyone!
I am running MS 2.1.1 with the Hardware listed below. I usually run Channel EQ and Compression on every layer and Guitar Amp Pro or NI Guitar Rig for Amp Sims with my EP's (usually EVP but sometimes Scarbee in NI Komplete). I have been experiencing CPU spikes and "in the Red" indicators with more frequency than normal. I have done all the traditional optimization and diagnostic procedures and would appreciate any further help and suggestions.
Thanks in Advance!!!

Nice setup. I am assuming you have all other applications shut down when running MainStage. Sometimes if you have a LOT of patches with a LOT of plug-ins and virtual instruments setup, you can start to hit a threshold. You could use your Concert and save it under a different name, then experiment by cutting out certain things to see what is overloading your setup. Often, it is third-party stuff. For Apple stuff, the "Designer" plug ins (verb, delay, amp sims) eat up cpu.
Other stuff to try. Take advantage of your hardware DSP (eq, compression, verb, limiter, etc) in you Ultralite inputs to off load it from MainStage (you can even route MainStage outputs to Ultralite inputs to do this with virtual instruments). Use aliases whenever you can to reduce the use of duplicate plug-ins/instruments in multiple patches. If you have sets that don't change, you can also make separate Concerts for sets, and load them in before the set. Check you buffer setting and make sure it is not set too low. Set it as high as you can without your being bugged by latency effects.
Its nice to get to the point where you can rapidly scroll through your patches without red lining your cpu, so thats a good goal....

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Hello all,
I am working on an issue an would really appreciate some help.
I am using an sbRIO 9612 for a sort of data acquisition procees. I am acuiring data on the sbRIO and transferring it via network to the host where it is displayed, etc...
My objective is to try to minimize the CPU utilization time on the sbRIO. For this reason I am using a producer consumer architecture where the producer acquires data and buffers it into a queue (or a single process shared variable with FIFO enabled) at a rate of 1 loop/ms and the consumer is responsible for sending data to the host.
What I was able to achieve is the following:
1. Instead of sending data one item at a time, I used the consumer loop to build an 50 element array of the data and send it every 50 ms to release the CPU for some time. This enhanced the performance by about 15%
2. I also replaced using the shared variables in sending the data to the host by using Network streaming which also reduced CPU usage by 10%.
3. Using Queues instead of the single process shared variables to send data from producer to consumer didn't seem to affect the CPU usage.
I want to know if anybody has other ideas that allow me to further decrease the CPU usage by proposing different approaches, architectures, functions.... anything that might help me have a starting point to think of,
Thank you
Best Regards

I would tweak the size of the "clumps" of data you are sending between your loops and through the Ethernet port to see what is most efficient. Keep in mind that you are handing data through 3 FIFOs:
1) FPGA to RT - you can change the value of the FPGA Interface.FIFO Read method. You need to ensure that you are reading often enough to not overflow the buffer, but generally a larger read size at a given thoughput will use less CPU than multiple smaller reads.
2) Producer to Consumer - The Queue/RT FIFO/Shared Variables used to pass data from producer to consumer
3) RT to Host PC (Ethernet, Network Streaming) - most networks max out their throughput and are most efficient near their MTU packet size.
I have a hypothesis that making the size of the data packet passed from all 3 FIFOs the same size (or a multiple of a common minimum denominator) will help boost performance because you'll be able to pass data around in a manageable chunk rather than breaking it up and reassembling it at each touch point. By that logic, it would make sense to pick a packet size that is near the MTU size for the Ethernet network, and back propagate that all the way to the RT read from the FPGA.
Hope this helps, and the disclaimer: these are suggestions for things I would try if I were in your shoes, not things I can guarantee will give the ultimate performance boost you may be looking for. I think your overall architecture is sound, but depending on how complex and sustainable you intend this application to be, you may have a look at a couple resources I found on ni.com, including:
Reference Example for Streaming Data from FPGA to cRIO to Windows (a little older, written in 8.5, so it may not be using some of the new features you've taken advantage of)
Using NI CompactRIO and LabVIEW for Online Signal Processing and Data Recording (intended for inline analysis, but also includes streaming features - takes advantage of the CompactRIO Waveform Reference Library for FPGA to RT streaming - if doing data conversion, fixed to floating point, this example also includes FPGA based IP for conversion that will max your throughput)
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Spex
National Instruments
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CPU optimization: Acceptable amount for a smartphone?

Hi - I've been optimizing my *** off with removeListeners and vectors to bitmaps etc etc etc... However I am also removing tweening animation that I would like to include but I remove it in case it slows down smartphone too mcuh.
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Excellent answer.
I should have just looked up the specs.
What I'll probably do is cut out the tweens and things on the phone but keep them for when specs rise - I suppose when they all get to a decent level then things should be easier. I can get the CPU usage down to 10 in any case and it onlyjumps to 20 if I have a little animation in there so it won't be too hard on the CPU and only in places. I'll just have to see if that causes a lag and if so - change the sliding animation to a make visible animation.
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X220 I5 cpu spikes idle

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What the hell good is Flash?!

I mean really? After taking time on a few different occassions to try and google and find what I can do w/ flash on Android 2.2 and finding nothing I have to ask myself this.
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The Adobe Flash Player is software for viewing animations and movies using a web browser. Flash is a common format for games, and animations such as advertisements embedded into web pages.
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Flash Player 10.1 allows viewing on many sites such as youtube.com as well as viewing embedded video content within sites such as espn.com.
Sites such as Hulu.com and Netflix movies will not be seen in a full desktop view as the websites recognize the device accessing the site as a mobile device with flash not a laptop or standard PC with flash. This is a limitation on the side of the website being accessed vs. the device itself.
Even YouTube.com is likely to not be accessible in a desktop format for the same reason. However, YouTube videos can be viewed via the YouTube app/widget or those videos embedded within other sites as mentioned above.
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Color is faster on slower machine. Is it Leopard?

So, maybe I'm jumping to conclusions here, but let me lay the facts out. I rendered the same material in Color on two different machines. One: a dual 2.3 Ghz G5 with 3GB of RAM. And the other: a dual 2.0Ghz G5 with 1.5GB of RAM. Both have the same Radeon graphics card, though the card in the 2.0 is one firmware revision older. Neither are dual core, just dual processor. The 2.3 is connected to the RAID directly and the 2.0 shares that connection via a network connection.
BUT, the 2.0 is at least twice as fast at rendering and playback in color.
My conclusion: The 2.3 is running Tiger. The 2.0 is running leopard. Has anyone else experienced this kind of speed boost with the new OS? If so, I should probably load it on my other machines.

I posted my similar experience on the Color mailing-list with Leopard drastically improving rendering performance when I upgraded to Leopard:
http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/ColorList/message/702
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Hi all
I am(with a team of 4 members) going to build an online data entry system which may have approximately 30 screens. I am going to use Spring BlazeDS remoting to connect middleware.
Anyone could please suggest me some good practices to follow in flex side to do such a "DATA ENTRY" application.
The below points are some very few common best practices we need to follow while doing coding .But i am not sure how to achive them in flex side.
User experience (Probably i can get little info regarding this from my client)
Code maintanability
Code extendibility
memory and CPU optimization
Able to work with team members(Multiple checkouts)
Best framework
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There are two options, none of them very palatable:
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In practice, a better option is to create an SQL login that is member of sysadmin - or who have rights to impersonate an account that is member of sysadmin. And for that matter, you could use the built-in sa account - but you rename it to something else.
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for the login attempts were in China.
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How to tell what recovery point was used for restore

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Leopard on powermac G5

Because on advise from a friend I upgraded my G5 from tiger to leopard 10.5.2. Now the cpu goes on red with four miditracks. There is one track with a delay-designer and one track with a Sculpture.
I have 6,5 giga RAM and Two 2 Ghz. On Tiger this was almost not visible on the cpu. There are only one of the cpu that goes red, the other one is almost not working.

In my experience in terms of major OS upgrades (moving from Tiger to Leopard), it's always best to do a fresh install (clean, formatted hard drive). Although it's tedious, it can save a bunch of heartache and time later on. I don't think you can downgrade to Tiger after installing Leopard (nor would I recommend it). I usually keep 2 hard drives, one with Tiger and one with Leopard and test software on each.
Again, I don't think your 4 midi tracks should send your cpus in the red. Check out this thread ( http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2160495&tstart=45 ) for some good Logic workflow/cpu optimization tips (ignore the banter). Try those things before doing anything else and if they don't help, I would do a fresh install or maybe even go back to Tiger.

[Solved] Cant install\compile certain AUR packages

This is a brand new 32-bit build on my laptop. Everything is working great, but for some reason I cant get some AUR packages. I have Yaourt, pacman-color, and slock installed from AUR and working fine, but I cant get mpd-git or mplayer-svn installed? I have gcc, python installed and tried both root and user accounts. Not sure what is missing. This is a new dual core laptop so not sure why I am getting the CPU errors below?
This is for mplayer-svn:
==> SVN checkout done or server timeout, updating build dir
==> Applying disabled-features patch...
/var/abs/local/yaourtbuild/mplayer-svn/./PKGBUILD: line 56: patch: command not found
Detected operating system: Linux
Detected host architecture: i386
Checking for host cc ... gcc
Checking for cross compilation ... yes
./configure: line 1605: gcc: command not found
./configure: line 1610: gcc: command not found
Checking for CPU vendor ... GenuineIntel (6:15:11)
Checking for CPU type ... Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7500 @ 2.20GHz
Checking for kernel support of mmx ... failed
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To use mmx extensions in MPlayer, you have to upgrade/recompile your kernel!
Checking for kernel support of mmxext ... failed
It seems that your kernel does not correctly support mmxext.
To use mmxext extensions in MPlayer, you have to upgrade/recompile your kernel!
Checking for kernel support of sse ... failed
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To use sse extensions in MPlayer, you have to upgrade/recompile your kernel!
Checking for kernel support of sse2 ... failed
It seems that your kernel does not correctly support sse2.
To use sse2 extensions in MPlayer, you have to upgrade/recompile your kernel!
Checking for kernel support of ssse3 ... failed
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To use ssse3 extensions in MPlayer, you have to upgrade/recompile your kernel!
Checking for kernel support of cmov ... failed
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Checking for GCC & CPU optimization abilities ... CPU optimization disabled. CPU not recognized or your compiler is too old.
error
Checking for byte order ... failed to autodetect byte order, defaulting to little-endian
Checking for extern symbol prefix ...
Error: Symbol mangling check failed.
Check "configure.log" if you do not understand why it failed.
==> ERROR: Build Failed.
Aborting...
Error: Makepkg was unable to build mplayer-svn package.
This is for mpd-git:
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configure: error: in `/tmp/yaourt-tmp-banshee/aur-mpd-git/mpd-git/src/mpd-build':
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
See `config.log' for more details.
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
==> ERROR: Build Failed.
Aborting...
Error: Makepkg was unable to build mpd-git package.
Last edited by banshee28 (2009-09-03 04:15:43)

Allan wrote:
You need to install the base-devel group (pacman -S base-devel).
This is a bit weird though....
Checking for cross compilation ... yes
hopefully it goes away!
Ah, I see all the apps in this group now! Not sure how I missed this? Was this in the wiki somwhere??
Anyways,its getting further along now ....

Problems with Audition 3.01

I just upgraded to Audition 3 from Audition 1. So far I have had just problems:
1) I have to activate Audition every day. That is - not every time I start it, but every day.
2) I have set the program to auto-scroll during playback and recording. It doesn't scroll during recording, and often not during playback. It is also reacting a bit slow. The playback cursor often stops, or disappears after a few seconds.
3) Playback or recording stops if I click on a background program, like the mixer.
4) The program crashes every time if I try to use the noise reduction effect. After capturing the noise profile the program crash almost immediately, every time.
I hope someone can help me sort this out. My system is:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core processor 3800+ 2.01 GHz, 2 GB RAM. Windows XP Professional with service pack 3. I have optimized the machine according to the tips found on the Adobe site. I have installed the 3.01 patch.

Hi,
For the auto-scroll and other display issues, AMD released a CPU optimizer update that may help address some of these issues. It's available at: http://support.amd.com/us/Pages/dynamicDetails.aspx?ListID=c5cd2c08-1432-4756-aafa-4d9dc64 6342f&ItemID=153
That doesn't matter much, however, if you have to activate every day and if it crashes when using noise reduction. Activation resets each DAY? That's a new one. Are you running any sort of daily task that backs up or restores your hard drive or registry? I imagine it's unlikely that the licensing is actually de-activating or you would quickly run into the activation limits, but perhaps there is a bit or registry entry somewhere that is getting reset that makes the application believe it need to activate when the relevant activation data is already in place.
If you're comfortable using Windows Registry Editor, could you launch it via Start > Run > regedit and navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{53C141BA-4F9E-43F B-B4F9-0c01BB716FA8} Then click File > Export and save that block to a file and send it to me at [email protected]
If you could also launch Audition, click Help > About Adobe Audition > System Info and attach the info.txt file it creates, it might give me more information to determine the nature of what's wrong.
As for the Noise Reduction crash, does it only happen when capturing a profile? If you just run Noise Reduction without capturing a profile, do you see a crash? Do you see crashes with any other effects in this manner?
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Adobe Audition

Question about Tweak XP tool usage

was wondering im using tweak xp and can i use the cpu optimization part (centrino) off the program or isnt that a good idea?

Hi
I have found a information that the early versions are compatible only with Windows XP SP1. The version 4.0 is compatible also with SP2.
But this was not a question ;)
In my opinion you shouldn't change something on the CPU settings. I thing it could lead to the CPU overheating or other strange issues.
Keep your hands off

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I scored a whoping... 12202... Thats very sucky... Somebody Help me
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3DMARK2001 PROJECT FILE
PROJECT
Name   My Benchmark
Description
Registration Name
Registration Key
3DMark Version   330
DISPLAY
Platform   NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4600
CPU Optimization   D3D Pure Hardware T&L
Width   1024
Height   768
Depth   32 bit
Z-Buffering   24 bit
Texture Format   Compressed
Buffering   Double
Refresh Rate   60 Hz
FSAA Mode   None
OPTIONS
Show Title Screens   Yes
Continuous Benchmark   No
Benchmark Run Count   1
Demo Sounds Enabled   Yes
Continuous Demo   No
Game Sound Effects Enabled   Yes
Game Music Enabled   Yes
Game Detail Level   Low
RESULTS
3DMark Score   12202
Game 1 - Car Chase - Low Detail   194.0 fps
Game 1 - Car Chase - High Detail   70.5 fps
Game 2 - Dragothic - Low Detail   208.6 fps
Game 2 - Dragothic - High Detail   122.2 fps
Game 3 - Lobby - Low Detail   169.3 fps
Game 3 - Lobby - High Detail   78.2 fps
Game 4 - Nature   53.3 fps
Fill Rate (Single-Texturing)   1072.1 MTexels/s
Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing)   2316.6 MTexels/s
High Polygon Count (1 Light)   57.5 MTriangles/s
High Polygon Count (8 Lights)   12.5 MTriangles/s
Environment Bump Mapping   165.5 fps
DOT3 Bump Mapping   152.0 fps
Vertex Shader   99.5 fps
Pixel Shader   122.1 fps
Advanced Pixel Shader   89.1 fps
Point Sprites   30.0 MSprites/s
SYSTEM INFO
System Info Version   2.2
Installation ID   0x00000000
OEM ID
CPU INFO
CENTRAL PROCESSING UNITS
Manufacturer   AMD
Family   Duron(tm)
Internal Clock   2.16 GHz
Internal Clock Maximum   2.20 GHz
External Clock   166 MHz
Socket Designation   Socket A
Type
Upgrade   ZIF Socket
Capabilities   MMX, CMov, RDTSC, 3DNow!, Extended 3DNow!, SSE
Version   AMD Athlon(tm) XP
CPUID   0x000006a0
CACHES
Level   1
Capacity   128 KB
Type   Internal
Type Details   Synchronous
Error Correction Type
Associativity
Level   2
Capacity   512 KB
Type   External
Type Details   Synchronous
Error Correction Type
Associativity
DIRECTX INFO
DirectX Version   9.0
DIRECTDRAW INFO
DirectDraw Version    5.3.0000000.900
DISPLAY DEVICES
Description   Primary Display Driver
Manufacturer   NVIDIA
Name   NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4600
Total Local Video Memory   128 MB
Total Local Texture Memory   128 MB
Total AGP Memory   62 MB
Display Driver   nv4_disp.dll
Display Driver Version   6.14.10.4523
Driver WHQL Certified   Yes
Max Texture Width    4096
Max Texture Height   4096
Max User Clipping Planes   0
Max Active Hardware Lights   8
Max Texture Blending Stages   8
Textures In Single Pass   4
Vertex Shader Version   1.1
Pixel Shader Version   1.3
Max Vertex Blend Matrices   0
Max Texture Coordinates   8
Vendor ID   0x10de
Device ID   0x0250
Sub-System ID   0x00371545
Revision   0xa3

Mplayer segfaults during ./configure

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no (mismatch of library and header versions)
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no
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skottish wrote:
irfan wrote:Is it makepkg's bug?
This patch doesn't work for me
This problem was solved upstream a while ago. Try without the patch if you haven't already.
Well, I've tried few times already ...with no success.
EDIT
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Detected operating system: Linux
Detected host architecture: i386
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Checking for host cc ... cc
Checking for cross compilation ... no
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Checking for mtrr support ... yes
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Checking for assembler support of -pipe option ... yes
Checking for compiler support of named assembler arguments ... yes
Checking for assembler (as ) ... ok
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Checking for Linux kernel version ... 2.6.28-ARCH, ok
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Checking for langinfo ... yes
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Checking for runtime cpudetection ... no
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Checking for posix4 ... no
Checking for llrint ... yes
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Checking for lrintf ... yes
Checking for round ... yes
Checking for roundf ... yes
Checking for mkstemp ... yes
Checking for nanosleep ... yes
Checking for socklib ... yes
Checking for inet_pton() ... yes (using )
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Checking for closesocket() ... no
Checking for network ... yes
Checking for inttypes.h (required) ... yes
Checking for int_fastXY_t in inttypes.h ... yes
Checking for malloc.h ... yes
Checking for memalign() ... yes
Checking for alloca.h ... yes
Checking for mman.h ... yes
Checking for dynamic loader ... yes
Checking for dynamic a/v plugins support ... no
Checking for pthread ... yes (using -lpthread)
Checking for w32threads ... no (using pthread instead)
Checking for rpath ... no
Checking for iconv ... yes
Checking for soundcard.h ... yes (sys/soundcard.h)
Checking for sys/dvdio.h ... no
Checking for sys/cdio.h ... no
Checking for linux/cdrom.h ... yes
Checking for dvd.h ... no
Checking for termcap ... yes (using -lncurses)
Checking for termios ... yes (sys/termios.h)
Checking for shm ... yes
Checking for strsep() ... yes
Checking for vsscanf() ... yes
Checking for swab() ... yes
Checking for POSIX select() ... yes
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Checking for setenv() ... yes
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Checking for Apple IR ... yes
Checking for pkg-config ... yes
Checking for Samba support (libsmbclient) ... no
Checking for tdfxfb ... no
Checking for s3fb ... no
Checking for wii ... no
Checking for tdfxvid ... no
Checking for xvr100 ... no
Checking for tga ... yes
Checking for md5sum support ... yes
Checking for yuv4mpeg support ... yes
Checking for bl ... no
Checking for DirectFB ... no
Checking for X11 headers presence ... yes
Checking for X11 ... yes
Checking for Xss screensaver extensions ... yes
Checking for DPMS ... yes (using Xdpms 4)
Checking for Xv ... yes
Checking for XvMC ... no
Checking for Xinerama ... yes
Checking for Xxf86vm ... yes
Checking for XF86keysym ... yes
Checking for DGA ... yes (using DGA 2.0)
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Checking for GGI ... no
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Checking for AA ... no
Checking for CACA ... no
Checking for SVGAlib ... no
Checking for FBDev ... yes
Checking for DVB ... no
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no (mismatch of library and header versions)
Checking for MNG support ... yes
Checking for JPEG support ... ./configure: line 94: 29587 Segmentation fault "$TMPEXE" >> "$TMPLOG" 2>&1
no
Checking for PNM support ... yes
Checking for GIF support ... no
Checking for VESA support ... no
Checking for SDL ... yes (using sdl-config)
Checking for NAS ... no
Checking for DXR2 ... no
Checking for DXR3/H+ ... no
Checking for IVTV TV-Out (pre linux-2.6.24) ... no
Checking for V4L2 MPEG Decoder ... yes
Checking for OSS Audio ... yes
Checking for aRts ... no
Checking for EsounD ... yes
Checking for esd_get_latency() ... yes
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Checking for JACK ... no
Checking for OpenAL ... no
Checking for ALSA audio ... yes (using alsa 1.0.x and alsa/asoundlib.h)
Checking for Sun audio ... no
Checking for VCD support ... yes
Checking for dvdread ... yes (internal)
Checking for internal libdvdcss ... yes
Checking for cdparanoia ... yes
Checking for libcdio ... auto (using cdparanoia)
Checking for bitmap font support ... yes
Checking for freetype >= 2.0.9 ... ./configure: line 94: 29982 Segmentation fault "$TMPEXE" >> "$TMPLOG" 2>&1
no
Checking for fontconfig ... no (freetype support needed)
Checking for SSA/ASS support ... no (FreeType support needed)
Checking for fribidi with charsets ... no
Checking for ENCA ... yes
Checking for zlib ... yes
Checking for RTC ... yes
Checking for liblzo2 support ... no
Checking for mad support ... yes
Checking for Twolame ... no
Checking for Toolame ... no
Checking for OggVorbis support ... yes (internal Tremor)
Checking for libspeex (version >= 1.1 required) ... no
Checking for OggTheora support ... yes
Checking for internal mp3lib support ... yes
Checking for liba52 support ... yes (internal)
Checking for internal libmpeg2 support ... yes
Checking for libdca support ... yes
Checking for libmpcdec (musepack, version >= 1.2.1 required) ... no
Checking for FAAC support ... yes (in libavcodec: yes)
Checking for FAAD2 support ... yes
Checking for LADSPA plugin support ... no
Checking for Win32 codecs ... yes (using /usr/lib/codecs)
Checking for XAnim codecs ... yes (using /usr/lib/codecs)
Checking for RealPlayer codecs ... yes (using /usr/lib/codecs)
Checking for QuickTime codecs ... yes
Checking for Nemesi Streaming Media libraries ... no
Checking for LIVE555 Streaming Media libraries ... no
Checking for FFmpeg libavutil ... yes (static)
Checking for FFmpeg libavcodec ... yes (static)
Checking for FFmpeg libavformat ... yes (static)
Checking for FFmpeg libpostproc ... yes (static)
Checking for FFmpeg libswscale ... yes (static)
Checking for libamr narrowband ... no
Checking for libamr wideband ... no
Checking for libdv-0.9.5+ ... no
Checking for Xvid ... yes
Checking for Xvid two pass plugin ... yes
Checking for x264 ... no (in libavcodec: no)
Checking for libdirac ... no
Checking for libschroedinger ... no
Checking for libnut ... no
Checking for zr ... no
Checking for mencoder ... no
Checking for fastmemcpy ... yes
Checking for UnRAR executable ... yes
Checking for TV interface ... yes
Checking for DirectShow TV interface ... no
Checking for Video 4 Linux TV interface ... yes
Checking for Video 4 Linux 2 TV interface ... yes
Checking for TV teletext interface ... no
Checking for Radio interface ... no
Checking for Capture for Radio interface ... no
Checking for Video 4 Linux 2 Radio interface ... no
Checking for Video 4 Linux Radio interface ... no
Checking for Video 4 Linux 2 MPEG PVR interface ... yes
Checking for audio select() ... yes
Checking for ftp ... yes
Checking for vstream client ... no
Checking for byte order ... little-endian
Checking for OSD menu ... yes
Checking for Subtitles sorting ... yes
Checking for XMMS inputplugin support ... no
Checking for inet6 ... yes
Checking for gethostbyname2 ... yes
Checking for GUI ... no
Checking for automatic gdb attach ... no
Checking for compiler support for noexecstack ... yes
Checking for joystick ... no
Checking for lirc ... no
Checking for lircc ... no
Checking for DVD support (libdvdnav) ... no
Creating config.mak
Creating config.h
configure.log
Last edited by irfan (2009-01-03 00:11:14)

Mainstage 2 - MUCH worse CPU usage!

On my MBP, the same settings same project was hovering around 75% cpu with Mainstage 1, now Mainstage 2 is MAXED. Had to lower sample rate AND increase buffer to make it useable. This is unacceptable! Have noticed a few bugs fixed, and some great features added, but at a performance hit? No thanks. Using 2 firepods as aggregate device.
Anybody else experiencing higher CPU usage on the same projects?

Yelling might not help, but it sure can't hurt. Just got my Logic Studio 9 and I am finding the same thing. Mainstage 2 starts at 110 CPU... I thought it might be my Guitar Rig Mobile audio interface, so I switched to built-in input - no difference.
I am running Snow Leopard (dev program) - I thought that might be it, until I saw this thread - seems to be happening on 10.5 too.
Apple has really been doing a good Microsoft impersonation lately. Crappy first impression on what would otherwise be a very impressive software package - if they hadn't shipped it before it was fully baked. I know these issues will get resolved eventually - but yeesh. I paid $600 for the package largely for Mainstage, and the thing is buggy and unusable. Audio cut outs, screen freezes, graphics glitches.
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