>How does Pipewire deal with this?
It doesn't, it sets a much shorter max buffer length so that the latency is always acceptable. This does mean that in theory, with an otherwise totally idle system, PipeWire can't be quite as low power as PA.
It doesn't, it sets a much shorter max buffer length so that the latency is always acceptable. This does mean that in theory, with an otherwise totally idle system, PipeWire can't be quite as low power as PA.