pulseaudio memory usage possible leak

Reid Rivenburgh reidr at pobox.com
Sat Feb 20 17:45:51 UTC 2010


On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Paolo Galtieri <pgaltieri at gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't think you have an issue.  Here's what mine shows with an uptime of 1
> day
>
> PR  NI  VIRT   RES    SHR  S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
> 20   0   1118m 317m  34m  S   40.4   15.8         4:50.01
> firefox
>  9  -11  501m   2940   2080 S     2.6   0.1          41:02.09 pulseaudio
>
> Notice that firefox shows substantially more.

I'm not sure that's a compelling defense there....  They're very
different apps.  I have no idea if 501m is reasonable for pulseaudio.

> BTW, has anyone else noted that the latest firefox (3.5.8) is a CPU hog?

In my experience, that's often caused by flash running on a page or
some extension behaving poorly.  Is that possible in your case?

reid


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