Re: Pulseausio allocating +40Mo of RAM ?

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Hi,

On 07/17/2010 08:03 AM, ext rixed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hello !

I periodically run memstat on the N900 to check for apps that
could leak memory (in order to find a culprit for some
unresponsiveness issue), and I'm surprised to discover that
every time pulse audio is the process that uses the most memory.
See for instance here :

memstat -w | grep pulseaudio

   75848k: PID   768 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio)
      72k(     68k): /usr/bin/pulseaudio 768

So the text of the binary itself is rather small (libs are counted separately),
but the heap is 75M while the device is idle and not outputing anything.

Are you sure it's heap and not e.g. (almost completely unused)
thread stacks?


	- Eero

Is it normal ?
Out of curiosity, what's the purpose of all this ram when idle ?
does pulseaudio keep some huge precalc datas of some sort ?
If not, wouldn't be better to just discard this RAM when its no more needed,
in order to prevent swapping, which is quite slow ?

What do you think ?
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