<div class="gmail_quote">On 25 August 2010 23:42, Stefan Kost <<a href="mailto:ensonic@hora-obscura.de">ensonic@hora-obscura.de</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> On 10.08.2010 09:46, stuart68 wrote: > Hi, > > I have been successfully decoding a flac audio file being streamed to an arm > 9 processor, OMAPL-138 @ 372MHz, running openembedded Linux. This is using > the latest release of OE. > > When I look at the CPU load it cycles, it is not steady. It can go as low as > 0% right up to 99% CPU load. > > I would have expected the load to maintain a steady percentage. > > Can anyone offer me some advice? If not to stop this varying load, then what > changes can I make to improve the efficiency of the pipeline? > > I have tried using queue, but that makes no difference. > > My pipeline is as follows: > > gst-launch souphttpsrc location=http://<ip address>/<path to flac file> ! > decodbin ! alsasink > > Thanks in advance, > Stuart > > Is the CPU set to a fixed frequency? How are you meassuring the CPU load? </blockquote><div>CPU frequency is set to 372MHz with USERSPACE set. Stuart </div></div>