Package: pulseaudio Version: 0.9.10-3 Severity: normal
On my Duron 1200 pulseaudio takes 2.5% CPU time when no audio is played at all and ca. 10% when in use. I can't imagine a reason why even resampling should take that many cycles. Together with #505091 just playing background music takes away 20% of my CPU, which e.g. makes it impossible to play openarena at the same time. What do owners of slower machines do? Unfortunately some programs don't work without pulseaudio and pulseaudio is incompatible with alsa dmix, so I'm forced to use it for multiplexing audio. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing-proposed-updates APT policy: (850, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (850, 'testing'), (800, 'stable'), (300, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages pulseaudio depends on: ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups ii libasound2 1.0.16-2 ALSA library ii libasyncns0 0.3-1 Asyncronous name service query lib ii libc6 2.7-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcap1 1:1.10-14 support for getting/setting POSIX. ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.1-4 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libflac8 1.2.1-1.2 Free Lossless Audio Codec - runtim ii libltdl3 1.5.26-4 A system independent dlopen wrappe ii libogg0 1.1.3-4 Ogg Bitstream Library ii liboil0.3 0.3.15-1 Library of Optimized Inner Loops ii libpulsecore5 0.9.10-3 PulseAudio sound server core ii libsamplerate0 0.1.4-1 audio rate conversion library ii libsndfile1 1.0.17-4 Library for reading/writing audio ii libwrap0 7.6.q-16 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra ii lsb-base 3.2-20 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip Versions of packages pulseaudio recommends: ii gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio 0.9.7-2 GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio ii libasound2-plugins 1.0.16-1+b1 ALSA library additional plugins ii padevchooser 0.9.3-2 PulseAudio Device Chooser ii paprefs 0.9.6-2 PulseAudio Preferences ii pulseaudio-esound-compat 0.9.10-3 PulseAudio ESD compatibility layer ii pulseaudio-module-hal 0.9.10-3 HAL device detection module for Pu ii pulseaudio-module-x11 0.9.10-3 X11 module for PulseAudio sound se Versions of packages pulseaudio suggests: ii paman 0.9.4-1 PulseAudio Manager ii pavucontrol 0.9.6+svn20080426-1 PulseAudio Volume Control ii pavumeter 0.9.3-1 PulseAudio Volume Meter ii pulseaudio-utils 0.9.10-3 Command line tools for the PulseAu -- no debconf information _______________________________________________ Pkg-pulseaudio-devel mailing list Pkg-pulseaudio-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-pulseaudio-devel