24-Oct-2018, 05:02 PM
zram vs swap.... seems easy to try and revert....
I don't think either are particularly needed as monitoring with top whilst playing seems to show the most hungry program being...top @14% CPU on one core.
Mpd is pretty low resource usage anyway and these days I am using an AK4137 re-sampler to convert to DSD256 either via xmos or I2S depending on player so no heavy re-sampling is needed by the o/s or player hardware and DSD is fed to an Ess DAC bypassing some of the Chip's filtering.
So, I will try some more listening tests using zram and see if I can notice any difference....
Any comments appreciated...
https://github.com/novaspirit/rpi_zram
I don't think either are particularly needed as monitoring with top whilst playing seems to show the most hungry program being...top @14% CPU on one core.
Mpd is pretty low resource usage anyway and these days I am using an AK4137 re-sampler to convert to DSD256 either via xmos or I2S depending on player so no heavy re-sampling is needed by the o/s or player hardware and DSD is fed to an Ess DAC bypassing some of the Chip's filtering.
So, I will try some more listening tests using zram and see if I can notice any difference....
Any comments appreciated...
https://github.com/novaspirit/rpi_zram
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