'Twas brillig, and Jack Tanner at 10/12/08 04:34 did gyre and gimble: > Colin Guthrie <gmane <at> colin.guthr.ie> writes: > >> There are lots of things that can be done including using a lower grade >> resampler and such like things. > > I watched top while running vlc through PA, and it became obvious that the > choppiness was due to thrashing the swap. What I need to do is to lower PA > memory usage. What's the most effective way of doing that? > > FYI, this is on > vlc-0.9.8a-1.fc10.i386 > kernel-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686 > pulseaudio-0.9.13-6.fc10.i386 > > I guess it may be time to upgrade the hardware, too. It would be interesting to see how much memory pulse is actually using. Remember that top is not really a good benchmark of how much memory is actually (and actively) being used. Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]
