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From: Raymond Yau <superquad.vortex2@gmail.com>
To: ALSA Development Mailing List <alsa-devel@alsa-project.org>
Subject: Re: pulseaudio eats 19% CPU power in Fedora 12
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 13:36:07 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <q2u4f3252891004192236z28134ef7ubacaf0331a539745@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100419032856.GA13629@tango.0pointer.de>

2010/4/19 Lennart Poettering <mznyfn@0pointer.de>

>
> Yes, sure. If you use "pacat" you can play audio with almost zero CPU
> usage, because it is one of the few clients that actually asks for
> sensible latency (2s), which allows us to minimize the wakeup intervals
> to less than a second.
>
>
> Lennart
>
>
Just test it on Fedora 10

CPU usage of pulseuadio is above 3% when using pacat

CPU usage of pulseaudio is below 2% when using aplay

CPU usage of pulseaudio is below 3% when using paplay

the test audio is stereo 44100Hz pcm wav

Do you have any figures on Fedora 12 or 13 ?

      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-04-20  5:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-14  7:56 pulseaudio eats 19% CPU power in Fedora 12 Wu Fengguang
2010-04-14  8:31 ` Colin Guthrie
2010-04-19  3:28 ` Lennart Poettering
2010-04-19  3:38   ` [alsa-devel] " Daniel Chen
2010-04-21  0:30     ` Raymond Yau
2010-04-21  7:57       ` Colin Guthrie
2010-04-22  1:11         ` Raymond Yau
2010-04-22  7:53           ` Colin Guthrie
2010-04-19  5:20   ` Shuang He
2010-04-19 14:48     ` [pulseaudio-discuss] " Lennart Poettering
2010-04-20  3:30       ` Raymond Yau
2010-04-19  8:34   ` Raymond Yau
2010-04-20  5:36   ` Raymond Yau [this message]

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