CPU Overload with kernels 2149 & 2154 and ALSA...

[Mihai Maties]

On Sunday 18 January 2004 05:58, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 23:12:43 -0300, Alexandre Strube wrote:
> > Em Sáb, 2004-01-17 às 22:38, Mike Becker escreveu:
> > > displayed stating that a CPU overload has occurred and the sound server
> > > is being shut down.  I also have gkrellm running and according to it,
> > > the CPU is indeed running at 100%, until I clear the message - then the
> > > CPU usage drops down to just a couple of percent.
> >
> > What process is getting all the cpu? Did you looked at top?
>
> It's aRtsd (KDE's sound server) which causes problems when the ALSA OSS
> emulation layer is loaded instead of native OSS support.

As a side note: the same thing is happening with the commercial version of 
OSS, too.


Mihai