On Mon, 31 May 2004, Bob Stia wrote:
> On Sunday 30 May 2004 11:56 pm, Eben King wrote:
> > On Sun, 30 May 2004, Bob Stia wrote:
> > > Maybe once every couple of weeks, while doing my normal routine
> > > things, (using kmail or konq ) the computer starts to really slow
> > > down and become unresponsive. I then check in TOP and I find some
> > > process that is really hogging cpu time. Tonight it was artsd
> > > using about 80%. (Did play a couple of games of kpoker with
> > > associated sound effects) Don't remember what it was the last
> > > time. I just shut down and restarted X to get it normal again.
> >
> > artsd is flaky, maybe? See if there's an update, or disable it and
> > deal with one sound at a time, unless your sound card handles
> > multiple simultaneous sounds (mine does, a SoundBlaster Live!).
> I also have a soundblaster live.
I'm not running any mixing software, yet I can play multiple simultaneous
sounds. Maybe if you disable artsd, you won't lose anything? Just FTR,
I'm using ALSA 0.9.8, because that might be taking care of multiplexing.
-- -eben ebQenW1@EtaRmpTabYayU.rIr.OcoPm home.tampabay.rr.com/hactarAnd we never failed to fail / It was the easiest thing to do -- CSN
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