32bit versus 64bit

Hello to everyone here,

I'm very impressed about 64studio, because I like Debian and I'm using it since 7 Years.
I have a question:
First I have used the 2.0 Version on a 32bit System an I have latencys of 2.9 ms (2 Period an 64 frames) without any xruns when I'm using ardour/jamin at the same time.
No I have a 64bit System an I have xruns. I have to increase the frames to 256 and 11.6 ms to eliminate xruns.
Any Ideas why?

My Hardware on 32 bit:

MSI P4 Mainborad
2.8 GHZ P4 cpu
ATI Radeon 9200 AGP Graphics
M-Audiophile 24/96 PC400/3200
1GB RAM

On 64bit:
ASUS M2N4-SLI
AMD 3800+ X2
Gainward Nvidia 7300GS Graphics
M-AUdiophiel 24/96
2 GB Ram PC800/6400

Let's rock
Andreas

64bit

My 64bit system has always been able to do 16channels in and out at 2.9 ms without xruns, while doing some effects on most of the channels. Also running the 3800+ X2. (only 1GB RAM)

Doing a quick check again... Kernel 2.6.22-1-multimedia-amd64

Yip... 18ch in and out at 2.9 ms on a RME hammerfall 9632 - CPU hardly 3% utilized

You might have some hardware issues.

32bit versus 64bit

Hell Quentin,

thanks for the fast reply.
You are right, I think it is the nforce4 Chipset.
Do you or any other user have problems with nforce4 an pci Cards?
Any suggestions for a workaround with nforce4 chipsets?

Let's rock
Andreas

My Hardware:
ASUS M2N4-SLI
AMD 3800+ X2
Gainward Nvidia 7300GS Grapihcs
M-Audiophile 24/96
2 GB Ram PC800/6400

32bit versus 64bit (solved)

Hello Quentin,

sorry about the forgotten "o" in Hello in my previous post.

I forgot to set acpi to "on" after installation of 64studio. That was the problem.
No I have no xruns anymore.

Thank's a lot

64studio rocks
Andreas

My Hardware:
ASUS M2N4-SLI
NFORCE4 Chipset
AMD 3800+ X2
Gainward Nvidia 7300GS Grapihcs
M-Audiophile 24/96
2 GB Ram PC800/6400 - Corsair Twin2x xms

Yebo

I almost thought you were South-African. If you were it would have been a perfectly normal way to greet someone if you were pleasantly surprised (which you were if you read the rest of your reply)

Cheers,

South-African

Hy Quentin,

I'm german, but I will keep it in memory, if I ever have contact to South-Africans :-)

64studio rocks
Andreas

My Hardware:
ASUS M2N4-SLI
NFORCE4 Chipset
AMD 3800+ X2
Gainward Nvidia 7300GS Grapihcs
M-Audiophile 24/96
2 GB Ram PC800/6400 - Corsair Twin2x XMS

Nforce and ACPI

I think the question may have been answered, I just want to be clear. I have an Nforce chipset on my laptop. When in installed 64Studio I had to disable acpi because the install crashed at some point when it referred to ACPI.

Does this mean it is still off? If I enable it will I get more performance? My laptop has pretty nice spec's so it would seem that I should have better performance than I in fact do.

If my memory serves me correctly, I am presently at 48000hz, 1024 frames, and 2 periods. The latency is around 60ms I think. I may be wrong about the latency. I'll let you know the actual latency if it matters at all.

Hardware:
Computer:
Averatec 2300
Amd Turion 64 X2 TL-50 (1.6GHz)
1 gig DDR2
100 gig SATA HDD
Dual Layer DVD+/-RW
nVIDIA GeForce Go 6100
1 Firewire (4 pin)
3 UBS 2.0
4-in-1 Media Reader
12.1" WXVGA Display
Sound Card:
M-Audio Duo

Yes...

I think you are right. You should get much better performance from that system.

I like to run at 11 ms latency, which is fine for mixing and mastering - on my system this is "conservative"! I can do 2.9 ms latency without xruns quite easily, but if I should start a power hungry non "RT" app, you sometimes get the odd xrun. Using 11 it is rock steady.

Do give it a try and let us know!

64Studio Rocks my world!

Hi Quentin, I am very impressed with your software!
Please keep up the good work!

Thanks to Daniel, Free & Tim

I wish I could take credit for the amazing OS that is 64studio. That honour goes to Daniel James, and Free Ekanayaka, that started off the project, and also to Tim Hall that is working on the support and documentation.

My small part is that of cheer leader, tester and newbie supporter - we all started somewhere, didn't we?

Nice to see you have joined our ranks!

Cheers

ditto

I'd like to say thanks to everyone who have been working on this project. it has its issues, for sure, but it is shaping up to be a very stable audio work environment for my laptop (Dell XPS m1330).

I am configuring 32-bit 64studio (this confused me at first...maybe it should be 64studio and 32studio? heh...) and dual-booting (my main OS is Ubuntu for everything else). I will post to a new thread to share the particulars of my goals and experience setting up the system :)

but yes, thank you for making this all possible :) :)