On 10/25/2010 04:11 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Monday, October 25, 2010 04:39:53 JD wrote: >> On 10/24/2010 08:28 PM, JD wrote: >>> --- snip --- >>> No matter what we think of flash, pulseaudio is not a product >>> of the flash plugin. It is a free and opensource linux product. >>> I just created output of strace of the pulseaudio process >>> and posted it at >>> http://pastebin.com/VbgCXwc3 >>> It shows clearly that it is in a tight loop polling and finding >>> nothing to process. As I had stated earlier, there is no youtube >>> video playing at all. It seems once you play any browser based >>> flash video, pulseaudio will continue to run even after you kill the >>> tab where it was playing, and chew up 40% of cpu (at least, this >>> is on my laptop with the old athlon64 3700+ unicore cpu). >>> I do not know how much it consumes on much faster cpu's. >>> >>> Are there audio engineers on this list? >>> Is this the way to handle an audio stream by an audio daemon? >> I would like to add that this behavior is only evident when playing >> a flash video via the browser. >> But if I play a video via ffplayer, then after the end of the video, >> pulseaudio goes back to consuming almost 0% of cpu. >> So, is it possible that the flash plugin is not closing the audio >> file descriptor, so pulseaudio keeps polling and finding nothing? > Probably. Either way, the fact that there is a problem only after flash > playback indicates that flash and/or the browser are at fault here, not > pulseaudio. > > Best, :-) > Marko Thanks Marko - I will look into finding a way to ask adobe about it, since it is their plugin. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
