Chuck,
naturally i use [shell]. Your advice sounds like the ultimate solution. Now the same I have to make for the rest of the cores to keep the main Pd out of the core where the subprocess is bound.
Thanks a lot,
Popesz
On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 6:03 PM Charles Z Henry czhenry@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Popesz,
Are you using [ggee/shell] ?
Here's an example that works on my linux machine
[taskset -c 2 $_ -noaudio >/dev/null & P=$! && echo $P && wait $P( | [ggee/shell] | [f ] ///the PID
When I run that command, $_ is a bash variable (see [env( - [shell] - [print] for full environment) that has the full path to the pd binary in use. You may have to replace "$_" with something more appropriate to your system I added -noaudio, because my first pd process is handling audio I/O. I don't need stdout from pd itself, so I added ">/dev/null". The process shows up in top or htop with those arguments included. You could distinguish between your processes by some environment variable or set of options to pd in the command. "& P=$! " launches pd into the background and records a variable P for its PID. There may be other ways of doing this. "&& echo $P && wait $P" causes the shell started by [shell] to output the PID to stdout (the left outlet). Without "wait $P", [shell] outputs a bang from its right outlet immediately. Using "wait $P" allows [shell] to maintain the status of the process, and it outputs a bang when the process ends.
Using htop, I see that the process starts and runs on CPU "3". Taskset must use a CPU numbering that starts at 0, and htop counts CPU's from 1.
Chuck
On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 10:23 AM Csaba Láng langcsaba@gmail.com wrote:
Dear list, I am getting closer to the solution of binding process to a certain core
with taskset.
e.g. taskset 0xa gedit will bind the gedit to the tenth core.
Now the problem is that I cannot identify the subprocess by its name as
it will be pd too, and the PID will be always different so cannot use that number too.
What would be the logical solution for starting the subprocess from pd
with the taskedit command?
Thanks in advance for any help,
Popesz
On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 11:14 PM IOhannes m zmölnig zmoelnig@iem.at
wrote:
On 3/5/20 10:48 PM, Charles Z Henry wrote:
On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 4:14 AM Max abonnements@revolwear.com wrote:
A glance at the System Monitor CPU history graph should give you an
idea.
i usually use 'htop', which is a much improved version of top which also (among verious other interesting things) gives you the CPU of a process.
Second, you can bind processes to certain CPUs. This is called "CPU affinity" and it's controlled by the linux command "taskset". This looks like a fine explanation
but keep in mind that the people who designed the muticore scheduling algorithms most likely will have a better idea of how to ideally distribute multiple processes onto multiple CPUs.
gmsdr IOhannes
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