[pulseaudio-discuss] 306MB of VM for a sound daemon?

2010-04-30 Thread Brian J . Murrell
306MB of VM seems a bit excessive for a sound daemon, yes? $ cat /proc/6828/status Name: pulseaudio State: S (sleeping) Tgid: 6828 Pid:6828 PPid: 1 TracerPid: 0 Uid:1001100110011001 Gid:1001100110011001 FDSize: 256 Groups: 4 20 24 25 29 30 44 46 106

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] [alsa-devel] [RFC] disabling ALSA period interrupts

2010-04-30 Thread pl bossart
Hi Clemens, >> When PulseAudio is used and all PCM is routed through PulseAudio >> (Fedora, Meego, etc), the notion of ALSA periods isn't very useful. >> So why not disable them entirely to reduce the number of wakeups? ... >> There are probably some cases where you don't want this type of >> beha

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] [alsa-devel] [RFC] disabling ALSA period interrupts

2010-04-30 Thread pl bossart
Hi Liam, > How do you handle any clock drift here between the HDA hardware > interface clock and the PA timer ? Good question. This is already handled by PulseAudio. The timer isn't programmed with a fixed value but is adapted precisely to track differences between system time and audio time. Pul

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Removing volume sliders from media player UIs

2010-04-30 Thread Jan Braun
Tanu Kaskinen schrob: > > Aha. So you propose/defend making the per-app volume sliders difficult > > to change to prevent users shooting themselves in the foot? > > Yes. Well, just in order to avoid misunderstanding, I don't propose > making it "difficult", just significantly less convenient than