On 08/08/2012 03:41 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > All, Slavek, > > In 3.5.13-sru, the artsd process is continually taking between 8 and 11 > percent of the CPU. That is high compared to my other installs of 14.0. Is > anybody else seeing this? The sound is working though, so I'm pleased there. > (that has always been hit or miss) What to check to see why artsd is so greedy? > This may be normal, but when any sound event is triggered, I get the following in my ~/.xsession-errors file: OggS-SEEK: at 0 want 89080 got 85568 (diff-requested 89080) OggS-SEEK: at 88640 want 520 got 0 (diff-requested -88120) Does that make any sense?? After a few minutes, artsd does drop off to about 0.3% cpu which is what I normally expect to see, but I don't understand why it hovers around 10% after the sound finishes playing. Let me know if you can think of anything, otherwise, I'll just keep an eye on it. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.