On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 2:04 AM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Is there a recommended value for slow machines or a way to tell PA just to use the HW? Peter -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
