[ACTION REQUIRED] orphaned packages in F-14

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Fri Aug 6 01:04:28 UTC 2010


On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 10:46 +0000, Petr Pisar wrote:

> PulseAudio is interresting project, but it's absolutely unusable on old
> slow hardware. Last time I checked it out on Pentium TSC (no MMX)
> running at 200 MHz, it consumed 20 % of CPU just in idle mode. While
> `playing', it congested CPU, printed some warnings about stream buffer
> overflow and terminated gracefully complaining about no CPU cycles. NAS
> or Esound work on the machine fluently.

PA uses a more correct but more CPU-intensive resampling method than
ALSA by default. On very slow systems it's a good idea to
edit /etc/pulse/daemon.conf and change the 'resample-method' parameter.
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