Playing a stream, pulseaudio is using ~60% CPU...

top - 22:37:26 up 16:13, 11 users,  load average: 1.64, 3.43, 2.41
Tasks: 173 total,   1 running, 172 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu0  : 21.7%us, 42.4%sy,  0.0%ni, 34.9%id,  0.0%wa,  0.3%hi,  0.7%si,  0.0%st
Cpu1  : 21.2%us,  8.2%sy,  0.0%ni, 70.6%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   3111084k total,  2308564k used,   802520k free,   220472k buffers
Swap:  4891720k total,        0k used,  4891720k free,  1320480k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND            
                                                   
20650 $user    9 -11 32540 5752 4264 S   60  0.2   2:40.08 pulseaudio           
                                                  
23378 $user   20   0  213m  37m  16m S   29  1.2   1:15.20 vlc                  
                                                  
19401 root      20   0  351m  72m  14m S    6  2.4  73:04.58 Xorg               
                                                    

processor       : 0|1
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 15
model           : 107
model name      : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+

01:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy (rev 04)
        Subsystem: Creative Labs Device 2002
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 19
        I/O ports at 9800 [size=64]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: EMU10K1_Audigy
        Kernel modules: snd-emu10k1

01:09.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy Game Port (rev 04)
        Subsystem: Creative Labs Device 0040
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32
        I/O ports at 9c00 [size=8]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: Emu10k1_gameport
        Kernel modules: emu10k1-gp

uid=1000($user) gid=1000($user)
Gruppen=4(adm),7(lp),20(dialout),21(fax),24(cdrom),25(floppy),29(audio),44(video),46(plugdev),104(scanner),108(lpadmin),115(pulse),116
(pulse-access),117(pulse-
rt),123(admin),124(sambashare),125(vboxusers),242(vdr),1000($user)

cat /etc/lsb-release 
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=intrepid
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 8.10"

uname -a
Linux kilroy 2.6.27-7-generic #1 SMP Tue Nov 4 19:33:20 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

additional pulseaudio often termintes with:
Soft CPU time limit exhausted, terminating.

concerning sound intrepid (32 and 64bit) is a great step backwards

I've never had so much problems with sound - started with 5.xx and otjer
distributions before :(

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pulseaudio uses too much CPU
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/207135
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