On Thu, 2012-08-16 at 04:55 +0200, Sladjan Ri wrote: > Hi, > > is it beneficial to run in high priority at all? I tested and found > stuttering with the src-high-quality resampling, with nice level -11 > and CPU went up to 70% on one core (gnome-system-monitor). > Without high-priority, it hadn't stuttered and CPU only went to about 40%. I think we had some problems with the pulseaudio nice level in Maemo too. I don't fully (or at all...) understand what causes the problems, but it indeed looks like having a low nice level can actually make performance worse. If your system works better without the high-priority option, then feel free not to use it. -- Tanu