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I am not in front of a KDE machine right now, but you can disable the
arts daemon in the kde control center.  Even when nothing is generating
sound, arts is a daemon that is alway running.

Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> Hi :)
> 
> I run some media players and now I do "nothing", only Icedove and
> Firefox is opened and top is running by Yakuake. KDE sound is disabled.
> "Normally" my media players are using ALSA and seldom Jack, there might
> be a KDE player, that might use arts and maybe I run it accidentally
> while clicking on some sound files, but at the moment there is no media
> player running.
> 
> Why is artsd wasting resources? Why is IRQ-21, the sound card, "runner-up"?
> 
> KDE sound is disabled, only computer case speaker beep is enabled.
> 
>     [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ top
>     top - 01:59:13 up  3:51,  1 user,  load average: 0.09, 0.11, 0.09
>     Tasks: 145 total,   2 running, 143 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
>     Cpu(s):  3.3%us,  0.2%sy,  0.0%ni, 96.5%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi, 
>     0.0%si,  0.0%st
>     Mem:   1911196k total,   773028k used,  1138168k free,    58492k buffers
>     Swap:  1076312k total,        0k used,  1076312k free,   425956k cached
> 
>       PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
>     10956 spinymou  20   0  360m  49m  12m R    7  2.7  13:40.72 artsd
>      8489 root     -51  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:18.90 IRQ-21
>     13184 spinymou  20   0 18888 1288  936 R    0  0.1   0:00.11 top
>         1 root      20   0 10244  760  624 S    0  0.0   0:01.01 init
>         2 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 migration/0
>         3 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00
>     posix_cpu_timer
>         4 root     -51   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00
>     softirq-high/0
>         5 root     -51   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:40.28
>     softirq-timer/0
>         6 root     -51   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.40
>     softirq-net-tx/
>         7 root     -51   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:04.25
>     softirq-net-rx/
>         8 root     -51   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00
>     softirq-block/0
>         9 root     -51   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.01
>     softirq-tasklet
>        10 root     -51   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.57
>     softirq-sched/0
>        11 root     -51   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.11
>     softirq-rcu/0
>        12 root      10 -10     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.01 desched/0
>        13 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 migration/1
>        14 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00
>     posix_cpu_timer
>        15 root     -51   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00
>     softirq-high/1
>        16 root     -51   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:25.01
>     softirq-timer/1
>        17 root     -51   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.15
>     softirq-net-tx/
>        18 root     -51   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.01
>     softirq-net-rx/
>        19 root     -51   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00
>     softirq-block/1
>        20 root     -51   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00
>     softirq-tasklet
>        21 root     -51   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.61
>     softirq-sched/1
>        22 root     -51   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.52
>     softirq-rcu/1
>        23 root      10 -10     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.01 desched/1
>        24 root      -2 -20     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.43 events/0
>        25 root      -2 -20     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.63 events/1
>        26 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 khelper
>        27 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kthread
>        44 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.03 kblockd/0
>        45 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.01 kblockd/1
>        46 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kacpid
>     [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /proc/interrupts
>                CPU0       CPU1
>       0:        212          0   IO-APIC-edge      timer
>       1:         10       7303   IO-APIC-edge      i8042
>       7:          0          0   IO-APIC-edge      parport0
>       8:          1          0   IO-APIC-edge      rtc
>       9:          0          1   IO-APIC-fasteoi   acpi
>      12:       1371    1092071   IO-APIC-edge      i8042
>      14:        141     182726   IO-APIC-edge      ide0
>      16:          1        250   IO-APIC-fasteoi   ohci_hcd:usb1
>      17:          0         56   IO-APIC-fasteoi   ohci_hcd:usb2,
>     ohci_hcd:usb4
>      18:          0          2   IO-APIC-fasteoi   ohci_hcd:usb3,
>     ohci_hcd:usb5
>      19:       1620     293318   IO-APIC-fasteoi   ehci_hcd:usb6, eth1
>      20:          0          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   libata
>      21:        268     450583   IO-APIC-fasteoi   ICE1712
>      22:          0          3   IO-APIC-fasteoi   libata, ohci1394
>     NMI:          0          0
>     LOC:   14198799   14198726
>     ERR:          0
>     [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
> 
>     64studio:/home/spinymouse# kill 10956
>     64studio:/home/spinymouse# top
>     top - 02:32:45 up  4:24,  1 user,  load average: 0.03, 0.07, 0.08
>     Tasks: 147 total,   1 running, 146 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
>     Cpu(s):  0.2%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni, 99.8%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi, 
>     0.0%si,  0.0%st
>     Mem:   1911196k total,   798568k used,  1112628k free,    60084k buffers
>     Swap:  1076312k total,        0k used,  1076312k free,   429172k cached
> 
>       PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
>     13275 root      20   0 18888 1284  936 R    0  0.1   0:00.18 top
>         1 root      20   0 10244  760  624 S    0  0.0   0:01.02 init
>         2 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 migration/0
>         3 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00
>     posix_cpu_timer
>         4 root     -51   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00
>     softirq-high/0
>         5 root     -51   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:45.61
>     softirq-timer/0
>         6 root     -51   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.41
>     softirq-net-tx/
>         7 root     -51   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:04.30
>     softirq-net-rx/
>         8 root     -51   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00
>     softirq-block/0
>         9 root     -51   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.01
>     softirq-tasklet
>        10 root     -51   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.60
>     softirq-sched/0
>        11 root     -51   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.11
>     softirq-rcu/0
>        12 root      10 -10     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.01 desched/0
>        13 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 migration/1
>        14 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00
>     posix_cpu_timer
>        15 root     -51   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00
>     softirq-high/1
>        16 root     -51   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:28.19
>     softirq-timer/1
>        17 root     -51   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.15
>     softirq-net-tx/
>        18 root     -51   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.01
>     softirq-net-rx/
>        19 root     -51   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00
>     softirq-block/1
>        20 root     -51   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00
>     softirq-tasklet
>        21 root     -51   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.64
>     softirq-sched/1
>        22 root     -51   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.53
>     softirq-rcu/1
>        23 root      10 -10     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.01 desched/1
>        24 root      -2 -20     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.50 events/0
>        25 root      -2 -20     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.71 events/1
>        26 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 khelper
>        27 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kthread
>        44 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.03 kblockd/0
>        45 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.01 kblockd/1
>        46 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kacpid
>        47 root     -51  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 IRQ-9
>       160 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00
>     ksuspend_usbd
>     64studio:/home/spinymouse#
> 
> Okay, I clearly run arts accidentally, and once the daemon has been
> started, it will run until I kill it manually. Is there a way to banish
> arts?
> 
> Cheers,
> Ralf
> 
> 
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