[ubuntu-studio-devel] Ubuntu Studio and Pulseaudio

[brian at linuxsynths.com]

On Sun, 13 Dec 2015 07:28:23 -0800 (PST), Len Ovens wrote: 

> On
Sat, 12 Dec 2015, brian at linuxsynths.com [1]wrote:
> 
>> although
pulseaudio wasn't causing the problem I was having with this particular
instrument, when I run "top" or "htop" in the terminal, pulseaudio is
always near the top of the list of threads, even though I have never
used it. So I did
> 
> Do you have the cpu governor set to performance
rather than ondemand? 
> pulse is running .7 to 1% here, less than jack
and way less than 
> zita-ajbridge BTW. firefox is up to 15% and a you
tube plugin is pretty 
> solid at 12 to 15%, Turning the governor to
performance cuts those in 
> half.
> 
>> uninstall it (remove rather
than purge) and things still work fine as far as I have seen so far.
>

> Glad you have figured things out.

Yes, I'm familiar with all of your
points above. I use skype on another pc where I don't do audio work, i
part because I know that it requires pulseaudio. My set-up has cpu set
to performance, and I think the only real "interruptions" that I get are
when my internet connection is active; so I now generally disconnect
from the internet while working. 

And yes, pulseaudio does connect
other apps to Jack, and while that's a nice feature, since pulseaudio
doesn't figure in to my use of ubuntu studio for audio work, it's
probably more of a nuisance than anything. Since it was almost always at
the top of htop threads, and I wasn't needing it or using it, I just
uninstalled it. 

So I guess for me, the best set-up is to do web
browsing mostly on a different pc, and use my ubuntu-studio pc for audio
work. Not a problem at all, really. 

brian 
  

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