esound eats CPU cycles

[deman win tue nl (Ronald de Man)]

Hello,

I noticed that my computer is slower than it used to be. I tracked it
down to esd. Whenever it is running performance goes down by approximately
30%. This is on a P233MMX running linux-2.0.36 and glibc.
Are more people experiencing this? Esd is not showing up in top and
stracing it shows that its doing a select(), so I have no idea what
is happening here.

Ronald