Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Unnecessary Services
From: Lee Revell (rlrevell_AT_joe-job.com)
Date: Wed Dec 29 2004 - 18:35:57 EET
On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 13:06 +0000, tim hall wrote:
> Last Wednesday 29 December 2004 10:17, Lee Revell was like:
> > > Hello Everybody - hoping your Old year is Excellent
> > >
> > > Is there a list that I could look at that would show all necessary
> > > and unnecessary services in terms of Linux Audio. If possible I
> > > would also like to see which files are to be editted for real fine
> > > tuning of my workstation.
> >
> > While in general you should not run services you don't use, in this area
> > Linux is a lot better than Windows. Running unnecessary services should
> > not interfere with audio performance. Of course if they're usilg a lot
> > of CPU you have that much less for DSP, but it's not line on Windows
> > where you need to shut down all unnecessary services and the network and
> > what not in order to not get underruns.
>
> So far I have not found a useful one-page guide to this, so you'll have to
> read up on each service individually to find out what they do. In practice
> you can lose most of them. If you are running an old or underpowered PC like
> I do, running unnecessary services surely does interfere with the performance
> of the applications that you use for audio work (note wording). I nearly
> migrated to GNOME with version 2.8, but Rosegarden4 is virtually unusable in
> that environment on my machine, so I'm back to openbox3. The audio system is
> fine, however waiting more than a minute for the 'JACK subsystem is losing
> audio frames' dialog to recognise that you clicked the 'OK' button, is not.
Another problem is that it's hard to say a priori which services are
unnecessary because Linux boxes vary way more than Windows. Any generic
advice would be guaranteed to hose one person's system out there.
How about posting the output of "ps ax", and we can tell you which ones
you probably don't need.
Lee
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