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> It certainly improves certain details of the user experience, when it works correctly, also usually consuming more CPU than flash player You make a sweeping

> It certainly improves certain details of the user experience, when it works correctly, also usually consuming more CPU than flash player You make a sweeping statement which is not true for every system. Looking at what happens playing a Youtube music video, according to htop: - pulseaudio is using between 0 and 1% CPU - plugin-container (wrapping Flash) is at 3% - firefox oscillates between 20 and 40% Now, my understanding is that, at the time pulseaudio came out, it was using untested functionalities in audio drivers which, for many chipsets, did not actually work and progressively got fixed. There was the same problem with graphics drivers when KDE 4.0 was introduced. Maybe you're out of luck and actually have a defective driver?

raverbashing 14y ago
Thanks for this insightful answer I'm not sure I have a bad driver, the last two chipsets I used were Intel (and no weird audio devices), works fine with other sw. Latest distro tested: RHEL 6 and Fedora 16 For me, PA would stay around 5%, 10% sometimes, and even more depending on the task. Not to mention crashing every week (at a random moment)
- mercurial 14y ago
  That's curious. You might be a victim of this bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=813407 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=813407 I'm not sure if this could affect the CPU usage. I hear that you can play with the resample setting to lower it, but I haven't had to do that on a 5+ yo desktop.
- ashayh 14y ago
  You should avoid RH based distros for Desktop related activities. Perhaps you should try Ubuntu, Mint or Suse.
  - mindcrime 14y ago
    Nonsense. Fedora is a fine desktop Linux... I run it on a woefully underpowered laptop which I use for development, and it is every bit as usable as, say, Ubuntu (which I use on my corporate laptop). In fact, I'd take my Fedora/KDE setup over this Ubuntu/Unity setup any day.
- ldng 14y ago
  Hum do you mean HDA by Intel ? If so, look closer because HDA is an umbrella for a lot of codecs. Edit: to be clearer, HDA does not automatically mean Intel chip. I made that mistake before.

raverbashing 14y ago

Thanks for this insightful answer I'm not sure I have a bad driver, the last two chipsets I used were Intel (and no weird audio devices), works fine with other sw. Latest distro tested: RHEL 6 and Fedora 16 For me, PA would stay around 5%, 10% sometimes, and even more depending on the task. Not to mention crashing every week (at a random moment)

mercurial 14y ago
That's curious. You might be a victim of this bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=813407 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=813407 I'm not sure if this could affect the CPU usage. I hear that you can play with the resample setting to lower it, but I haven't had to do that on a 5+ yo desktop.
ashayh 14y ago
You should avoid RH based distros for Desktop related activities. Perhaps you should try Ubuntu, Mint or Suse.
- mindcrime 14y ago
  Nonsense. Fedora is a fine desktop Linux... I run it on a woefully underpowered laptop which I use for development, and it is every bit as usable as, say, Ubuntu (which I use on my corporate laptop). In fact, I'd take my Fedora/KDE setup over this Ubuntu/Unity setup any day.
ldng 14y ago
Hum do you mean HDA by Intel ? If so, look closer because HDA is an umbrella for a lot of codecs. Edit: to be clearer, HDA does not automatically mean Intel chip. I made that mistake before.