Playing a stream, pulseaudio is using ~60% CPU... top - 22:37:26 up 16:13, 11 users, load average: 1.64, 3.43, 2.41 Tasks: 173 total, 1 running, 172 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu0 : 21.7%us, 42.4%sy, 0.0%ni, 34.9%id, 0.0%wa, 0.3%hi, 0.7%si, 0.0%st Cpu1 : 21.2%us, 8.2%sy, 0.0%ni, 70.6%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 3111084k total, 2308564k used, 802520k free, 220472k buffers Swap: 4891720k total, 0k used, 4891720k free, 1320480k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 20650 $user 9 -11 32540 5752 4264 S 60 0.2 2:40.08 pulseaudio 23378 $user 20 0 213m 37m 16m S 29 1.2 1:15.20 vlc 19401 root 20 0 351m 72m 14m S 6 2.4 73:04.58 Xorg processor : 0|1 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 15 model : 107 model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+ 01:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy (rev 04) Subsystem: Creative Labs Device 2002 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 19 I/O ports at 9800 [size=64] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: EMU10K1_Audigy Kernel modules: snd-emu10k1 01:09.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy Game Port (rev 04) Subsystem: Creative Labs Device 0040 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32 I/O ports at 9c00 [size=8] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: Emu10k1_gameport Kernel modules: emu10k1-gp uid=1000($user) gid=1000($user) Gruppen=4(adm),7(lp),20(dialout),21(fax),24(cdrom),25(floppy),29(audio),44(video),46(plugdev),104(scanner),108(lpadmin),115(pulse),116 (pulse-access),117(pulse- rt),123(admin),124(sambashare),125(vboxusers),242(vdr),1000($user) cat /etc/lsb-release DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.10 DISTRIB_CODENAME=intrepid DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 8.10" uname -a Linux kilroy 2.6.27-7-generic #1 SMP Tue Nov 4 19:33:20 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux additional pulseaudio often termintes with: Soft CPU time limit exhausted, terminating. concerning sound intrepid (32 and 64bit) is a great step backwards I've never had so much problems with sound - started with 5.xx and otjer distributions before :( -- pulseaudio uses too much CPU https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/207135 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs