[Pkg-audacious-maintainers] Bug#613203: audacious: High CPU usage with snd_hda_intel based soundcard

[Fabien C.]

> This is indeed a problem that has plagued Audacious on and off for
> years.  It is apparently a bug in ALSA's DMix resampler, though still no
> one knows exactly what triggers it.  Audacious 2.4.3 has a workaround
> (http://hg.atheme.org/release/audacious-plugins-2.4.x/release/audacious-plugins-2.4.x/rev/974307743be7)
> that should eliminate the high CPU usage.

Well, once again it seems that from both sides, it's the other side's fault.

According to comments in ALSA's bugtracker
(https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=5278), audacious:
 - does "not calculate the correct buffer size"
 - does not write any data by snd_pcm_writei() or snd_pcm_commit() to the sound
card in alsa_write_audio()

Where are you xmms v1? :)