However: Sound card is eating about 5% of one CPU core:
Line from top: 93 root -51 0 0 0 0 S 4,6 0,0 2:44.19 irq/16- Fragment of /proc/interrupts Is it normal for USB sound devices to generate such load? CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 CPU3 0: 193 632 11469 650551 IO-APIC-edge timer 1: 0 0 1 1 IO-APIC-edge i8042 7: 1 0 0 0 IO-APIC-edge 8: 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc0 9: 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi 12: 1 0 0 4 IO-APIC-edge i8042 14: 0 1 49 4226 IO-APIC-edge pata_amd 15: 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-edge pata_amd 16: 4326115 10821 8863 214 IO-APIC-fasteoi , # btw, what comma does here instead of name? 17: 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi eth0 The IRQ16 stops using CPU if USB sound card is disconnected. The card is connected to USB 3.0 PCI card identified as USB controller: Renesas Technology Corp. uPD720202 USB 3.0 Host Controller. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1319457 Title: usb headset causes "retire_playback_urb ... callbacks suppressed" spam in dmesg To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1319457/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs