Comment 15 for bug 207135

Playing a stream, pulseaudio is using ~60% CPU...

top - 22:37:26 up 16:13, 11 users, load average: 1.64, 3.43, 2.41
Tasks: 173 total, 1 running, 172 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu0 : 21.7%us, 42.4%sy, 0.0%ni, 34.9%id, 0.0%wa, 0.3%hi, 0.7%si, 0.0%st
Cpu1 : 21.2%us, 8.2%sy, 0.0%ni, 70.6%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 3111084k total, 2308564k used, 802520k free, 220472k buffers
Swap: 4891720k total, 0k used, 4891720k free, 1320480k cached

  PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
20650 $user 9 -11 32540 5752 4264 S 60 0.2 2:40.08 pulseaudio
23378 $user 20 0 213m 37m 16m S 29 1.2 1:15.20 vlc
19401 root 20 0 351m 72m 14m S 6 2.4 73:04.58 Xorg

processor : 0|1
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 15
model : 107
model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+

01:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy (rev 04)
        Subsystem: Creative Labs Device 2002
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 19
        I/O ports at 9800 [size=64]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: EMU10K1_Audigy
        Kernel modules: snd-emu10k1

01:09.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy Game Port (rev 04)
        Subsystem: Creative Labs Device 0040
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32
        I/O ports at 9c00 [size=8]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: Emu10k1_gameport
        Kernel modules: emu10k1-gp

uid=1000($user) gid=1000($user) Gruppen=4(adm),7(lp),20(dialout),21(fax),24(cdrom),25(floppy),29(audio),44(video),46(plugdev),104(scanner),108(lpadmin),115(pulse),116(pulse-access),117(pulse-rt),123(admin),124(sambashare),125(vboxusers),242(vdr),1000($user)

cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=intrepid
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 8.10"

uname -a
Linux kilroy 2.6.27-7-generic #1 SMP Tue Nov 4 19:33:20 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

additional pulseaudio often termintes with:
Soft CPU time limit exhausted, terminating.

concerning sound intrepid (32 and 64bit) is a great step backwards

I've never had so much problems with sound - started with 5.xx and otjer distributions before :(