On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 11:21:26AM +0100, pbrobinson@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > 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? 'man pulse-daemon.conf' reports that using 'trivial' is worst quality but easier on slow machines. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ Where open source multiplies: http://opensource.com -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
