Quote Originally Posted by bobbasrah View Post
Chris, Alex, you appear to be finding greater processing requirements for the hirez files but the reverse of what was expected? Is that correct?
But this is not so obviously the case for redbook?
Bob, the sirq-net-rx/0 process appears to cause the higher CPU requirements of PCM over FLAC on the SBT. This could be offsetting opposite effects in other processes. I'm NOT an expert but some googling does seem to suggest that this process is concerned with the network.

In retrospect, it would have been useful to compare %usr and maybe %sys. Something like 'sar' would have helped but I can't see it on the SBT.

Redbook files are smaller and don't seem to be stressing the SBT at all, PCM or FLAC.

Haven't done any listening comparisons of FLAC vs PCM. When I get a chance ....

Chris