From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Q312461) Description of problem: Same as bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=76171 also effects RedHat 8.0 latest errata kernel. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.use xmms 2. use redhat-snd-config 3. use any program that touches sound card Actual Results: The process that tries to use sound card climb to near 100% CPU usage Expected Results: Sound should play normally Additional info:
I can confirm this problem affects RedHat 8.0 kernel 2.4.18-17.8.0. The original (2.4.18-14) kernel does not have the problem Always reproducable. Using redhat-config-soundcard, the sox process triggered is the CPU resource eater. Enableing ESD on login causes ESD to take the cpu resources.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 76171 ***