Re: esd eats 25% cpu?

["Mohammad Abdin" <rafat kcs org kw>]

I have the same problem - but I think its 27% - I could be wrong. 
Anyway, my soundcard is a clone sound blaster compatible clone 
thingy. It uses OPTi82C931 chipset, and I use the MAD16 and 
Microsoft Windows Sound System thingy in the kernel. It is Plug-N-
Play. I suspect its an old version of ESD. I'm gonna try the latest 
snapshot of both audiofile and esound

> On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 05:18:22PM +1000, Tony Keating wrote:
> > Anyone else have this problem?
> > When I run "esd &" it eats around 25% of the cpu. I compiled into into an
> > RPM from the esound-0.2.7.tar.gz file. Is the CVS version fixed? 
> > 
> > Tony.
> > 
> 
> I have the same problem and reported it to the list a few months ago.
> It seems to be something specific to our systems. What soundcard are you
> using? Mine is a Creative ViBRA16X PnP.
> 
> The delay is there the moment esd is running. It is not that esd is
> stealing cycles. strace shows that esd is sleeping while waiting for
> some input to process. Most likely it's something with the hardware.
> 
> Starting esd with the option -nobeeps helps, but after playing some
> sound, the delay is there again.
> Running esd through gdb, putting a breakpoint at a certain point
> (right after the startup beeps I think), and continuing from there,
> the delay is absent as well. So it might be possible to solve this
> problem.
> 
> Please tell me what soundcard you are using. And maybe other people
> can test for a delay as well. It is NOT a delay caused by esd playing
> sounds. esd is just doing nothing but the system slows down.
> 
> Ronald
> 
> 
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