Re: N900 pulseaudio consumes up to 1/4 cpu
 

that is happening to me also, running a top command shows puls taking 25% and after a while drops to 1.5

Re: N900 pulseaudio consumes up to 1/4 cpu
 

Mine never dropped, that's why I ended up with a battery problem.. now after I killed it (and it restarted itself) things are back to normal.

Re: N900 pulseaudio consumes up to 1/4 cpu
 

PID PPID USER STAT RSS %MEM %CPU COMMAND
1642 1571 user R 16824 6.8 42.7 /usr/bin/gemrb
780 1 pulse R < 3792 1.5 35.6 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --system --high-priority

really. i'm about to puke here. and they're repeating this for meego.

Re: N900 pulseaudio consumes up to 1/4 cpu
 

OK. PulseAudio sucks. We know this already.
But do we have an alternative?

Re: N900 pulseaudio consumes up to 1/4 cpu
 

I'd like to find some way to get rid of pulseaudio too. I can't use skype really, audio is choppy to the point I want to throw the phone out of the window. pulseaudio takes 35% cpu @600mhz both with speakers or headphones.

Re: N900 pulseaudio consumes up to 1/4 cpu
 

Sorry for necroing this thread, but I also discovered that PulseAudio is using about 33% of the CPU (at 250mhz), and this is very excessive I think.
Would be really nice to have a way to bypass the speaker protection thing, or get rid of Pulse Audio at all (I always had problems with it even on my netbook).

Re: N900 pulseaudio consumes up to 1/4 cpu
 

What the ****?!

I got the same problem in the latest days: idle pulseaudio draining battery. I'm on power-kernel_v46

Re: N900 pulseaudio consumes up to 1/4 cpu
 

idle pulseaudio should use any CPU. Probably some application is keeping a stream open.

Re: N900 pulseaudio consumes up to 1/4 cpu
 

you're probably right, I left a paused symfonie in background and it probably doesn't close the stream when paused.