After some research I see this is normal behaviour:
http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Tuning
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CPU usage spikes to 30% regularly during playback, no PulseAudio involved, just
ALSA
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/368121
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same behaviour here, without alsa and pulse...
I use MPD for streaming to icecast. When I activate ogg streaming, cpu
peaks 40%, when I use mp3 cpu falls back to 19%. But that is far more
than previous version Ubuntu does.
Before I used 8.10 with a compiled version of mpd 0.14.1 and then cpu
I have the same problems:
When dragging a bookmark folder just a few places the whole desktop
freezes... Can't even drop it.
Except I haven't an Intel integrated graphics card but Nvidia.
So it isn't just only an intel problem... Must I report a new bug?
Ubuntu 8.10 x86, Dell precision m65
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Leslie:
I tried that before and it doesn't works. It look likes it is installed,
but it won't start the Ebox deamons. It keeps on saying there is
something wrong with orbit I can't reproduce it, because I installed
ebox by adding the deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ebox/ubuntu intrepid
main to
Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that
you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS
locks due to a system crash. See http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/
for information. (Details - 1: Not running within active session) at
