I've noticed that when I use arecord without pulse, raw alsa, the cpu consumption of arecord is very low, almost zero. However, when using arecord with pulseaudio, I find cpu consumption very high. With 0.9.6, I found that arecord ran in the high 90's, and using ^C to kill the process wasn't useful. I had to kill -9. With >= 0.9.9, I found that arecord ran around 75%, and using ^C would work consistently. I have a 2.8 Ghz P4 with hyperthreading. Is it expected that arecord usage be so high with pulseaudio? I also found another curious note. With 0.9.6, a combined_sink results in pulseaudion consuming ~ 10-20% cpu while playing a wav file. With >= 0.9.10, I have found that using a combined_sink now consumes 50%. I don't find this unreasonable giving what combined sink is doing, just thought I'd pass on my findings. Example: load-module module-combine sink_name=misterhouse resample_method="src-sinc-best-quality" master=alsa_output.pci_1274_5880_alsa_playback_0 slaves=alsa_output.pci_8086_24d5_alsa_playback_0 Just attempting to route audio out 2 different cards. Jim
