[Ardour-Users] Mixbus32C and more than 200% CPU usage

[Robin Gareus]

On 01/11/2018 10:55 PM, jonetsu wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Jan 2018 22:16:10 +0100
> Robin Gareus <robin at gareus.org> wrote:
> 
>> What's the idle CPU and DSP load of a new, empty Mixbus session (just
>> the Mix-busses, no tracks)?
> 
> 20% CPU and 9.5% DSP for a new empty session.
> 

OK. That is reasonable.  CPU load can go up to  N * 100% with N = number
of CPU-cores.

200% CPU usage (as displayed by top) means on average two of your CPU
cores are busy. On a quad-core system that's nothing to worry about. It
shows that Mixbus' parallel-processing works as designed.

Total load depends on plugins and track-count (in Mixbus every track
does DSP).

ciao,
robin