On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 10:46 +0000, Petr Pisar wrote: > PulseAudio is interresting project, but it's absolutely unusable on old > slow hardware. Last time I checked it out on Pentium TSC (no MMX) > running at 200 MHz, it consumed 20 % of CPU just in idle mode. While > `playing', it congested CPU, printed some warnings about stream buffer > overflow and terminated gracefully complaining about no CPU cycles. NAS > or Esound work on the machine fluently. PA uses a more correct but more CPU-intensive resampling method than ALSA by default. On very slow systems it's a good idea to edit /etc/pulse/daemon.conf and change the 'resample-method' parameter. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
