[Pkg-audacious-maintainers] Bug#505091: audacious: eats 5% CPU for doing nothing

[Ralf Neubauer]

On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 08:17:55PM -0400, John Lindgren wrote:
> Have you tried using ALSA instead of PulseAudio?

Yes of course, that's how I used audacious before I used packages with
PulseAudio backend. PulseAudio is not compatible with the ALSA dmix plugin, so
I had to change over every audio client from ALSA/dmix to PulseAudio. Please
don't tell me I have to stop using other programs or buy more sound cards.

PulseAudio is described as CPU and energy saving by the developer, so I'm
wondering what's happening here. If audacious is just sitting there -- not
playing audio -- it shouldn't use up any CPU resources.

Ralf Neubauer

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