F14: high temperatures after coming back from hibernate

JD jd1008 at gmail.com
Tue Nov 9 04:25:27 UTC 2010


On 11/08/2010 07:57 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Nov 2010 21:35:19 -0600 JD<jd1008 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Hello Ranjan,
>> I wrote about the pulseaudio taking 40% of cpu when nothing was playing.
>> The cause of this constant looping is a bug in the Adobe flash plugin.
>> Pulseaudio daemon listens on a socket FD for incoming audio.
>> Each client (such as the adobe flash plugin) is supposed to close
>> the socket after the media finishes playing. Well, the adobe flash plugin
>> does not close the socket, causing pulseaudio to be in a tight loop,
>> polling the socket and finding nothing to process.
>>
>> In contradistinction to the Adobe plugin, run
>> /usr/bin/ffplay -autoexit somefile.mp3 (or any media file).
>> While the file is being played, you will notice pulseaudio
>> take a lot of the CPU. Once ffplay exits and closes the audio
>> socket, pulseaudio will consume a very negligible amount
>> of cpu, approaching 0%.
> Interesting, but I do not have flash plugin installed.
>
> Ranjan
So, you do not watch any videos via the browser?
Because if you do, then you have to have some kind
of flash plugin.




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