Audacious creates 133 wakeups while being idle

[Alan Jenkins]

Peter Hüwe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I noticed that audacious (music player) creates 133 wakeups while being in 
> idle mode (i.e. playback stopped) 
> ->This is quite a huge amount 
>
> Any suggestions how to reduce that amount?
> I tried disabling the scrolling song name feature, but that reduced the 
> wakeups only by three.
>   
If theres an option to increase buffer sizes that might help.

I think just keeping an audio device open causes wake-ups on some 
drivers, even if you're not writing to it.  But it's also possible your 
player is writing (silence) to the device.

What are the wakeups like when playing?  Much more?  Less?  The same?

It seems to be a common feature of music players, though 133 is 
excessive.  Amarok does 50/s all the time, idle or playing.  My guess is 
these wakeups are probably something most music players do at a low 
level, and that it's probably more natural to keep the wakeups going on 
idle (i.e. it made the code look better and there didn't seem to be any 
reason not to do it at the time).  IOW I'd look at the audio output 
path, not the GUI.