I’m trying to convert to Linux after having used Macs since forever. I’m running Manjaro on a Razer Blade 15 (2018) with an i7 8750H 6 core processor which, at least in theory, should be faster than my MB Pro late 2016. I’ve tweaked the jack settings and the system according to realtimeconfigquickscan and everything seems fine functionally. However, just booting the server in sc gives me a cpu-load of almost 3%. My MB Pro has something like 0.01%. I do realize that i might be looking at something different in Linux though, since this cpu load value seems to be derived from jack. I.e. starting another jack client increases the value even in sc. So, what am i looking at? Is SC on OSX showing me the cpu load of scsynth only, i.e. i shouldn’t compare these numbers?
And is a 3% “idle” load resonable in sc on linux or are there things to check/optimize?
Also tried benching to check the speed of sclang with this:
bench{
10000.do{
789/3;
};
}
My Razer delivers
time to run: 0.00047562600002493 seconds.
-> 0.00047562600002493
My MB Pro is twice as fast with something like
0.0002 seconds
Why? I would have expected the opposite.