<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2995" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=884353916-27062007>Hello</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=884353916-27062007></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=884353916-27062007>I upgraded from pulseaudio-0.9.2-r1 to pulseaudio-0.9.5-r4 on my gentoo Linux system.  I am playing sound from the gentoo linux system to 3 ALSA USB devices.  I can hear sound from the 3 sound cards just fine, but I noticed that the CPU usage% (as shown by the top utility) of the pulse audio daemon is at around 25-30%.  T</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=884353916-27062007></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=884353916-27062007>his much higher than in 0.9.2-r1 which was at around ~10%. Is this high of a CPU usage in 0.9.5 expected behavior?   </SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=884353916-27062007>Has anyone else seen this?   </SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=884353916-27062007>Does anyone know why I might be seeing this higher CPU usage?  Might this be a defect?</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=884353916-27062007></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=884353916-27062007>Thank you in advance for your help.  I have been trying to fix this for awhile and any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=884353916-27062007></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=884353916-27062007>Best Regards,</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=884353916-27062007>Eric</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML>