[GRLUG] pulseaudio using a TON of memory

[John-Thomas Richards]

On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 09:06:01AM -0400, Steve Romanow wrote:
> iirc, pulse uses a lot of alsa functionality "proxied" so it is not
> always apparent where the problem is.  good troubleshooting John

My understanding is that pulseaudio intercepts calls to ALSA, processes
them, and then sends them back to ALSA which actually controls the audio
hardware.  Wacky.
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