Pulseaudio 40% of CPU

[john wendel]

On 10/19/2010 09:48 AM, JD wrote:
>    On 10/19/2010 01:35 AM, Hiisi wrote:
>> 2010/10/19 JD<jd1008 at gmail.com>:
>>>    I played one video on youtube, then
>>> killed the youtube browser tab.
>> <--SNIP-->... I have to always
>>> kill pulseaudio so I can get some response back.
>>>
>> Actually not answering your question, but just wanted to confirm this
>> problem on my system (2.6.32.21-168.fc12.i686). I often have to do the
>> same!
>> In my opinion 'flash' is an ugly thing. And, to be honest, I'm the one
>> among those whom to blame for its wide usage. I was working nearly for
>> 5 years as a part-time teacher at school, teaching schoolboys to use
>> flash in web-projects. Now I do not know how to atone for my sins :-)
>> Looking forward for html5 video support in FireFox. Hope it became
>> video-standard some day...
> But pulseaudio is not part of the flash plugin from Adobe.
> It is a separate Fedora released package.
> Flash, which has finished playing and the Firefox
> tab in whichit played is killed, does not explain why
> pulseaudio continue to eat 40% of cpu, probably in
> tight do nothing loop.
>

Try "strace -p <pid-of-pulseaudio>", maybe it will show something.

John