Re: "dropouts" when playing multimedia
Am Samstag, 10. September 2005 13:32 schrieb James Hirschorn:
> I use ALSA, and I use the oss plugin for xmms. The sound server is not
> relevant, because the same thing happens when the server is off. I don't
> think my hardware is relevant either, because I have had the system for
> over a year, and this started less than a week ago. The only thing that
> might have changed on my system recently are upgrades from using apt-get.
>
> Looking at "top", the only thing I notice is that under KDE the 'kded'
> program is high up in both memory and CPU usage. Under Gnome there is a
> kded process but it does not appear on the top list. I have no idea what
> kded is. Could this possibly be the culprit?
Yes, this could be the problem. Something makes it go mad and your kernel
cannot handle that well enough to give you a constant audio stream. With
low-latency it probably could but finding out why kded uses so much CPU would
solve the problem, too.
HS
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