[GRLUG] pulseaudio using a TON of memory

[John-Thomas Richards]

On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 10:00:26AM -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 08:28 -0400, John-Thomas Richards wrote:
> > I just glanced at Conky and noticed my RAM usage is higher than I've
> > ever seen it (currently using 4.7GiB).  I ran top and sorted by memory
> > usage.  Here are my top five results.
> >   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND                                          
> >  4116 jtr       20   0 4140m 3.8g 3328 S    1 48.5   6:50.98 pulseaudio                                       
> >  9737 jtr       20   0  843m 307m  36m R    2  3.9  52:04.12 firefox-bin                                      
> > 15381 jtr       20   0  921m 122m  24m S    0  1.5  36:43.79 plugin-containe                                  
> > 24336 jtr       20   0  645m 109m  71m S    0  1.4   0:18.84 soffice.bin                                      
> >  5615 root      20   0  190m  94m  22m S    6  1.2  46:46.62 Xorg    
> > Any ideas what is causing a *sound server* to use so much RAM?
> 
> For me (openSUSE 11.4 x64) the pulseaudio server's RSS is ~5MB.  Do you
> have any pulse messages in the system log?

The only obvious (well, to *my* eyes) item is this:

Jun  1 08:30:32 auerbach pulseaudio[4116]: ratelimit.c: 214 events suppressed

However, prior to that message are these:

Jun  1 06:26:04 auerbach kernel: [67769.550965] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0:
 PCI INT A -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 23
Jun  1 06:26:11 auerbach kernel: [67775.779900] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0:
 PCI INT A disabled
Jun  1 06:26:25 auerbach kernel: [67789.848409] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0:
 BAR 0: set to [mem 0xf6507000-0xf65073ff] (PCI address [0xf6507000-0xf65073ff])

These three entries repeat multiple times.
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