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Subject: Re: pulseaudio eats 19% CPU power in Fedora 12
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 13:36:07 +0800
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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 ?