[ACTION REQUIRED] orphaned packages in F-14

[Adam Williamson]

On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 11:21 +0100, pbrobinson at gmail.com wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 2:04 AM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Is there a recommended value for slow machines or a way to tell PA
> just to use the HW?

Depends how slow is slow :). As Paul said, 'trivial' is the cheapest
method (but this will *definitely* lead to quite obvious audible
artifacts in certain cases; if you're lucky, you may happen never to
play any affected audio). On my Vaio P, which has a very slow Atom CPU,
I use speex-float-0 , which doesn't seem to cause any audible problems
for me and gets the CPU usage down enough that playing back high def
video doesn't max it out.
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