F14: high temperatures after coming back from hibernate

Ranjan Maitra maitra at iastate.edu
Tue Nov 9 05:06:54 UTC 2010


On Mon, 8 Nov 2010 22:25:27 -0600 JD <jd1008 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> 

Nope! Not on this (64-bit) machine.

Ranjan


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