[Sugar-devel] [Csnd] Re: Re: Re: Re: csound on Fedora 11 and rawhide

Peter Robinson pbrobinson at gmail.com
Tue Sep 8 11:53:51 EDT 2009


On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Paul Fox<pgf at laptop.org> wrote:
> peter wrote:
>  > On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Art Hunkins<abhunkin at uncg.edu> wrote:
>  > > Victor, I understand you to be saying that pulseaudio exhibits more latency
>  > > than ALSA.
>  > >
>  > > If this is so, why are we making pulseaudio the default for SoaS - where
>  > > most audio will be realtime?
>  >
>  > Because that's what Fedora and most other distros are moving to. Also
>
> i think using pulseaudio on a distro which is almost by definition
> aimed at under-powered machines is a mistake.  it's a very expensive
> subsystem, performance-wise.  i seem to recall seeing it take 10% of
> a 1Ghz system.

I've not seen that before on all sorts of low powered systems. In most
cases I've barely seen it register CPU usage compared to other things
running.

Peter


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