The Great Pulseaudio Mixer Debate: a modest (productive) proposal

[Bill Crawford]

On Monday 27 April 2009 16:12:06 Ben Boeckel wrote:

> I've had X lock up or temporarily freeze and kaffeine
> (playing through PA via xine) still plays. The only way
> I've been able to get it to skip is to force basically
> everything into swap with programs that take up 3+GB of
> RAM (making markov chains from big.txt takes...quite a
> bit in duck-typed languages). Maybe it's the dual core
> 3.0GHz, but I've found it hard to skip apps using PA.
> PA is taking 0% CPU and kaffeine jumps to 1% playing
> flac files. Also, PA hasn't even jumped towards the top
> of usage at all in the past few minutes.

I have an old PC. It only has one core, and ATA drives in it. Trust me, you can 
make things skip.