I still experience this issue on a current Hardy system (all updates accepted since it was originally installed), on an Intel Pentium M laptop (Dell Latitude D610).
When the CPU usage reaches a certain threshold, the CPU usage of rhythmbox and pulsaudio increases to take up the rest of the capacity, and sound turns choppy. If I kill the other CPU usage, the CPU usage of rhythmbox and pulseaudio goes down, and can once more play sound normally. Applications that have caused this behaviour on my system, are operapluginwrapper when having Opera open on a newspaper page with lots of flash ads, or maven builds. -- rhythmbox is slow! https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/73744 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