Well, 9.10 seems to have some major improvements in the kernel. I'm now running ALSA again, and CPU usage is stable at around 20%. Still excessive, but it's not spiking and causing dropouts all the time.
-- CPU usage spikes to 30% regularly during playback, no PulseAudio involved, just ALSA https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/368121 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs