Hi, I'm trying to help a user who seems to be having a bad experience with Pulse on a pretty powerful machine. If people have experience with pulse and resampling, especially with the 'speex-float-3' resampler, please let me know. I could quote the full information here but it's probably better to just link to the Mandriva discussion: http://archives.mandrivalinux.com/cooker/2007-12/msg00352.php Short synopsis (all info from above link): - Pulseaudio needs a terrible amount of CPU time: on my Athlon 64 3500, playing sound through Rhythmbox - Gstreamer (with the Gstreamer properties now set to output to PUlseaudio), Pulseaudio uses between 6 - 10 % of CPU time. - When I started restoring some minimized applications, sound began to stutter, and finally Rhythmbox stopped playing and hung using 100% of CPU time. I've never seen a similar problem before with Rhythmbox, although I use it daily. (This was with GStreamer set again to use Alsa, but I guess that means Alsa output was being intercepted by Pulseaudio, as it was using CPU time again). Anyway, the sound stuttering also happened to me yesterday when I was piping output directly to Pulseaudio. This is all on x86_64. I: client.c: Created 0 "Native client (UNIX socket client)" I: protocol-native.c: Got credentials: uid=500 gid=500 success=1 I: protocol-native.c: Enabled SHM for new connection I: client.c: Client 0 changed name from "Native client (UNIX socket client)" to "Rhythmbox" I: module-volume-restore.c: Restoring sink for <pulsecore/protocol-native.c$Rhythmbox> I: module-volume-restore.c: Restoring volume for <pulsecore/protocol-native.c$Rhythmbox> I: module-alsa-sink.c: Trying resume... I: module-alsa-sink.c: Resumed successfully... I: module-alsa-sink.c: Starting playback. D: module-suspend-on-idle.c: Sink alsa_output.pci_10de_59_alsa_playback_0 becomes idle. D: module-suspend-on-idle.c: Sink alsa_output.pci_10de_59_alsa_playback_0 becomes busy. I: resampler.c: Using resampler 'speex-float-3' I: resampler.c: Using float32le as working format. I: resampler.c: Choosing speex quality setting 3. I: sink-input.c: Created input 0 "Playback Stream" on alsa_output.pci_10de_59_alsa_playback_0 with sample spec s16le 2ch 44100Hz and channel map front-left,front-right D: memblockq.c: memblockq requested: maxlength=70560, tlength=35280, base=4, prebuf=33516, minreq=1764 D: memblockq.c: memblockq sanitized: maxlength=70560, tlength=35280, base=4, prebuf=33516, minreq=1764 Anyone have similar experience? Col
