Pd-extended is the GUI and pdextended is Pd itself. pd/pdextended will use 15% of the CPU because it polls the audio when idle. So its kind of like "reserving" 15% of the CPU for its use. You can make it "reserve" basically all the CPU if you use the -nosleep option.
If you want to reduce the CPU usage, you can use Jack, then it usually goes down to 2-3%. The Jack I/O uses callbacks so it doesn't have the sleep, as far as I understand it.
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On Sep 18, 2010, at 1:31 PM, jurgen wrote:
I'm having strange readings from the Activity Monitor OS X.6.4 on a core2duo macbook pro.
There are 2 apps opened
pd-extended
and
pdextended
where the latter consumes 15% of CPU without a patch opened.
I just attach a screenshot. I guess that's not supposed to be so. What can I do to close the 2nd app? The CPU load is high enough to make the cooling fans go on.
Best
Jurgen
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On Sep 17, 2010, at 2:38 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
Ok, with a couple of minor changes from rc6, the release is up! Now I just to sort out the details and write up the announcement.
http://puredata.info/downloads.hc
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