Volume meters take too much CPU
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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pavucontrol (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
During playback (or during input) the respective volume meters take a lot of CPU via Xorg process, if such a meter is visible in pavucontrol's user interface. When playing music, for instance, Xorg process will then take about all available CPU power of AMD Athlon XP processor, that is about 70% of CPU; pavucontrol itself takes only 3%. This makes pavucontrol user interface unresponsive and high-resolution video playback stammer.
VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 MX 420] (rev a3), using the default free driver.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: pavucontrol 0.9.9-1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Aug 21 22:32:46 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110426.1)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: pavucontrol
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
summary: |
- unresponsive + Volume meters take too much CPU |
description: | updated |
tags: | added: oneiric |
I did not notice similar unresponsiveness with gnome-volume- control.