On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Paul Fox<p...@laptop.org> wrote: > peter wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Art Hunkins<abhun...@uncg.edu> wrote: > > > Victor, I understand you to be saying that pulseaudio exhibits more > latency > > > than ALSA. > > > > > > If this is so, why are we making pulseaudio the default for SoaS - where > > > most audio will be realtime? > > > > Because that's what Fedora and most other distros are moving to. Also > > i think using pulseaudio on a distro which is almost by definition > aimed at under-powered machines is a mistake. it's a very expensive > subsystem, performance-wise. i seem to recall seeing it take 10% of > a 1Ghz system. >
I've heard that fiddling around with the value of resample-method in /etc/pulse/daemon.conf can lower the CPU usage somewhat. On a side-note, enabling PA would, on a immediate basis cause problems with Squeak, and as a result, Etoys and Scratch (http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=7328). I've heard from the Scratch developers that someone is working on PulseAudio support, and I have some half baked code lying around to do the same, but right now the only alternative is to use Squeak's OSS driver, which seems to crash during recording operations. Thanks, Sayamindu -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
