'Twas brillig, and Peter Onion at 02/10/09 21:24 did gyre and gimble: > It was ok when pulseaudio was using ~8% of one core but it seems to have > jumped up to 20%, dropouts are happening every couple of seconds and > these messages are appearing in /var/log/messages > > "Oct 2 21:20:47 NewHP pulseaudio[4492]: module-alsa-sink.c: ALSA woke > us up to write new data to the device, but there was actually nothing to > write! Most likely this is an ALSA driver bug. Please report this issue > to the PulseAudio developers." IIRC that message was changed in 0.9.15... So I suspect you're using a pretty old PA. 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/]