On Sun, 2011-11-13 at 20:51 -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > So I load up Audacity while copying some audio files, in order to have it > ready when it's time to process them. > > And in htop, I notice that even minutes after being loaded, Audacity is > using substantial CPU (6-11%, varying every refresh cycle of htop), even > though no files are loaded and it isn't doing anything. > > Anyone have a guess about why? Or what it's doing? > > Debian Wheezy. CPU is an AMD Turion.
2.9% using jackd here. Perhaps an issue regarding to Audacity's GUI and GNOME 3? While everything should be idle, sometimes 50% of the CPU resources are used. My CPU is a 2.1 GHz Athlon dual-core, I never had such performance issues before. What WM/DE do you use? - Ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1321256174.2866.96.camel@debian