Charles, On Sunday 29 May 2005 16:21, Charles philip Chan wrote:
On 29 May 2005, rschulz@sonic.net wrote:
Why? Why have a separate process get launched for each little notification sound?
These processes are really light weight, as opposed to the CPU intensive artsd. I don't really use KDE any way, I just use a few KDE apps. Also, I have a multi-channelled sound card, and I do not want a sound server hogging my sound device, even with auto-suspend.
That doesn't make much sense. The ARTS daemon runs continuously, and so does not incur nearly the per-invocation cost of an outboard process. Furthermore, there's only so much to do when it comes to playing sound. You enqueue the samples it to the hardware. There's a bit of kernel processing and some DMA. There's not much to it, assuming the sampling rate and format are directly supported by the hardware.
Charles
Randall Schulz