[GRLUG] pulseaudio using a TON of memory

[Mike Williams]

On 06/01/2011 08:43 AM, John-Thomas Richards wrote:
>
> Turns out the zombie apocalypse has begun:
>
> auerbach ~ # ps -el | grep Z
> F S   UID   PID  PPID  C PRI  NI ADDR SZ WCHAN  TTY          TIME CMD
> 0 Z  1000  8688  7177  0  80   0 -     0 -      ?        00:00:01 pavucontrol<defunct>
>
> Killing pulseaudio freed the RAM (naturally) but it really bugs me that
> it used so much to start with.  Could it be related to the above zombie
> process (pavucontrol is "pulseaudio volume control")?
Probably. Sounds like a classic runaway process or memory leak. I'm sure 
that's not normal operation, but if it keeps happening you'll have to 
figure out what needs patching.

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