[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#881715: alsa-utils: High CPU usage on the default device

[Andoru]

> I tried that on 3 different soundcards. I don't get vlc as a htop
COMMAND. It is always /usr/bin/vlc.

I swear I'm using the native VLC from the Debian repos.

> Please tell me how you fired up vlc.

I started VLC through OpenBox's menus, and on that menu the command to
start VLC is simply 'vlc', which probably translates to 'bash -c vlc'. If I
open a media file from the file manager, and there's no running instance of
VLC, I get "/usr/bin/vlc --started-from-file" as the command name under
htop.

> The %CPU usage isn't reproducible on none of the soundcards handy for me.

Have you actually tried it on a ALC887-VD or a similar integrated chip by
Realtek?

> I don't know how you got foobar2000 into Debian but this isn't¬
> maintained in the repos, so not relevant to this bug.

I did not get it through Debian, I simply installed it in the default Wine
prefix.

> Try to cancel all pulseaudio stuff and test again. Let me know....

I apologise, I think I did not mention this in the initial bug report, but
I'm not using PA, nor do I have it installed. That's why I submitted this
bug against ALSA.
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