Am Mo, den 12.04.2004 schrieb Jonathan Ryshpan um 11:13: > EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Upgrade alsa to version 1.04, if you're running KDE. > > I run the alsa sound system with OSS emulation and KDE. The KDE sound > server, aRts, has been crashing recently with a CPU overload message. A > check with a system monitor showed that aRts was consuming about 60% of > the CPU, even with no sound playing. After some web searching, I found > that aRts and sound drivers sometimes have a disagreement about buffer > management, which causes aRts to use lots of CPU. > > Upgrading from alsa-1.02 to alsa-1.04 has cut aRts CPU usage down to > about 1% CPU when sound is running and 0%, when no sound is running > (though I don't know why really). ARts no longer crashes, and the > system is a whole lot faster overall. > > Jonathan Ryshpan > Select "Threaded OSS Sound System" for arts in KDE Control Center. Works4ME (TM), used to work with previous alsa versions as well. Christoph
