[plug] aRts KDE 2.2 and Full Duplex operation

[Arkem]

aRts (sound server used by KDE 2.x) has been giving me some wierd 
results recently. As I run the server with full duplex operation the 
server uses all available cpu time and sometimes crashes but it acts 
fine without it on. This isn't a vital problem, I can live without 
full duplex for the moment but I was wondering if anyone had come 
across this problem or found a solution.

I did a search in google for solutions and all I found out is that in 
full duplex mode aRts doesn't suspend itself also there are reports 
of similar problems on kde bugs forum/ml archive but I can't access 
bugs.kde.org at the moment and the only ones archived elsewhere seem 
to be older versions of KDE.

Some background information: I'm running Debian Woody using OSS for 
sound and KDE 2.2 release version. The PC running KDE is a solid P3 
700 so I can pretty safely assume that the excessive use of cpu time 
and crashing is not due to my system specs.

Anyone got any comments or can offer any advice?

Regards
Paul C