Does anybody knows how to limit PD's CPU usage under OS X 10.5.4? I want PD to process in "non real time mode" without overloading the CPU.
Thanks

Ignacio

pipes and delays are your friend. You should be able to slow down processes to a reasonable %.

starting pd from the command line, you can use -r to specify samplerate, and -nrt to specify "not real time". This is where my knowledge fails, as I don't know the command to load pd from the osX terminal. Anyone else got that info?

or use the 'nice' or 'renice' tools to lower the priority, so pd sits in the background not doing much unless the cpu is idle. dunno how that works on OS X though, maybe there is a swanky graphical process manipulator