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