Jack works really well with the xine phonon backend at least. Nepomuk (file indexing) is probably the main offender for cpu/memory consumption, You can turn this off or limit it. Personally I let it run everywhere but where I keep my git/subversion repos.<div>
<br>PulseAudio is optional but I am finding that this is actually working quite well for me.</div><div>(I have to run pulseaudio --kill after starting jack)</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 10:54 PM, Bernardo Barros <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bernardobarros2@gmail.com">bernardobarros2@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">With KDE4 you can disable background services, Desktop Effects and<br>
all goodies in ``System Settings''. Then It uses 500MB here in<br>
average, and not much CPU with Desktop Effects disabled. With some of<br>
the goodies it uses 600MB here, not that much. Also Phonon does not<br>
require PulseAudio at all, and can talk to ALSA very smoothly.<br>
<br>
I wonder if it would be possible to have a JACK backend for<br>
KDE/Phonon... That would make a nice environment for pro audio work<br>
with a ready-made fancy desktop.<br>
<br>
I like OpenBox a lot too. I used it a lot. Xmonad is also great, if<br>
you enjoy tiling WM.<br>
<br>
The downside for OpenBox (not xmonad) is that it seems not very<br>
actively developed in the last year or so, not much releases or even<br>
git commits.<br>
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