Maybe its useful to mention the cpu-types. The fast one - 2.8GHz giving sluggish performance - is a Pentium 4. The "slow" one running at ~1.4GHz is an Athlon.
-anders
"a" == andersvi andersvi@extern.uio.no writes:
a> Using a section of several [vibraphone~] objects from the a> percolate-lib, PD eats all my cpu, pushing it above 90%, and a> destroying sound. The machine is a Dell 5150, with 2.8GHz cpu. a> a> The same patch runs clean (stays around 20% cpu) on another a> machine here, with slower cpu! (somewhere around 1.4GHz) a> a> The computer giving me aches is a Dell laptop, inspiron 5150, a> running fedora core 2, with planetccrma-low-latency kernel.