>  Also, artsd has gone back to eating 10-17% of the CPU for the 60 
>second
>'autosusped if idle for' period after a sound event. After the 60 
>second
>autosuspend period, artsd quiets back down. Why are we setting a 
>60 second
>autosuspend by default? Why not set it to 1 or 5 seconds. It would 
>sure make TDE
>run better giving users back 10-20% of their CPU for the remaining 
>55 seconds of
>the timeout. Further, if the user has sound events enabled for a 
>bulk of the
>events as many sound themes do for TDE, then with an autosuspend 
>set at 60,
>artsd will be basically grinding away full time.
>
>  Can we set that to 5 sec by default instead of 60? What are the 
>pros/cons of
>shortening the autosuspend period? I've seen some of the sound 
>server pages
>(pulse - perfect setup page) recommending 1 second for the 
>setting. Thoughts?

I have that set to 2 seconds on all of my systems, including my PI 
and PII clunkers.

Yes, 60 seconds seems absurd.

Darrell