{"id":306,"date":"2012-01-19T09:04:37","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T09:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martyndavis.com\/?p=306"},"modified":"2022-11-17T04:23:43","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T04:23:43","slug":"linux-music-with-guitarix-a-fix-for-high-cpu-usage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martyndavis.com\/?p=306","title":{"rendered":"Linux Music with Guitarix &#8211; A Fix for High CPU Usage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A quick tip for those using the excellent Guitarix guitar effects program on Linux. I regularly found both cores of my machine up around the 90%-100% when that application was running, causing XRuns in Jack and clicks in outputted audio. I just found a way around it. For some <em>really weird<\/em> reason, SSHing into my main box from a separate, really underpowered netbook (an EEE701) with the &#8220;-X&#8221; flag, then running Guitarix from that machine, results in <strong>much<\/strong>&nbsp;lower CPU usage. It&#8217;s weird because Guitarix is still running on my main machine, it&#8217;s just <em>displayed<\/em>&nbsp;on the remote machine. Presumably something in the display code for Guitarix is a lot heavier than it should be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quick tip for those using the excellent Guitarix guitar effects program on Linux. I regularly found both cores of my machine up around the 90%-100% when that application was running, causing XRuns in Jack and clicks in outputted audio. I just found a way around it. For some really weird reason, SSHing into my &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.martyndavis.com\/?p=306\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Linux Music with Guitarix &#8211; A Fix for High CPU Usage&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martyndavis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martyndavis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martyndavis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martyndavis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martyndavis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.martyndavis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":879,"href":"https:\/\/www.martyndavis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions\/879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martyndavis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martyndavis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martyndavis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}