[Mageia-dev] soundwrapper

Colin Guthrie mageia at colin.guthr.ie
Wed Mar 7 00:13:37 CET 2012


'Twas brillig, and Thierry Vignaud at 06/03/12 20:41 did gyre and gimble:
> On 6 March 2012 18:53, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
>>> Is there a simple way to check if a game uses alsa-oss modules ?
>>
>> You can tell if an application uses oss by doing:
>>  sudo fuser -v /dev/dsp
> 
> You don't need to be root in order to do that:
> /sbin/fuser -v /dev/dsp

Hmm... but I think it only shows pid if it's another user... which is
why I always suggest sudo - mpd running as mpd user is a common cause of
the hogging and thus it's nice to see that rather than a number.

Col.

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