I forgot to mention that I was using Debian Wheezy and their standard 64bit kernel. Without high-prio it has worked very good. Regards <div class="gmail_quote">On Aug 16, 2012 4:55 AM, "Sladjan Ri" <<a href="mailto:sladjanri@gmail.com">sladjanri@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Hi, is it beneficial to run in high priority at all? I tested and found stuttering with the src-high-quality resampling, with nice level -11 and CPU went up to 70% on one core (gnome-system-monitor). Without high-priority, it hadn't stuttered and CPU only went to about 40%. Regards, Sladi </blockquote></div>