[GRLUG] pulseaudio using a TON of memory

[Michael Mol]

On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Mike Williams <knightperson at zuzax.com> wrote:
> 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.

Memory leak is what I was thinking, too. That's definitely not normal operation.
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