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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]