> Le 08/08/2012 23:29, Timothy Pearson a écrit : >>> Le 08/08/2012 22:53, Slávek Banko a écrit : >>>> On Wednesday 08 of August 2012 22:41:00 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? >>>> David, >>>> >>>> I have artsd at 0% CPU, continually :) I use Amarok and it plays >>>> directly to >>>> alsa. However, through arts go all other sounds from TDE. >>>> >>>> Slavek >>> Hello, my artsd is always at ~0% even when playing sound. >>> >>> But I have a different problem: all the TDE sounds are delayed from >>> about ~2sec, which is very very noticeable. >>> Sounds play smoothly (no stutter), but they start playing long after >>> the >>> corresponding action has been done. >>> Any clue on this ? >>> >>> Francois >> Do you have PulseAudio installed? >> >> Tim >> > > Right, by disabling pulseaudio, arts is much more responsive :-) > Alas, I need pulseaudio so I cannot leave it disabled. > > BTW, I think that this lag is very huge ! > I can understand that having several chained sound servers may cause a > little delay, but here, we're talking about 2 seconds ! > > Francois This is a known PulseAudio problem not caused by TDE or aRts; as far as I know it affects people randomly based on the exact hardware and client software in use. Tim