Hi, On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 09:45:10AM +0000, Colin Guthrie wrote: > I've been having some trouble lately with (I think) the GStreamer sink. > > Let me try to explain: > > When suspending on my laptop, gnome-power-manager often plays a "bing" > noise to let me know I've closed my lid (I know I've closed my lid by > virtue of the fact I've just closed the lid.... ;)). When the machine > comes back from resume, there is sometimes (maybe one in three?) a > problem with playing sound. I think this is an ALSA issue (rmmodding the > snd_hda_intel and modprobing it again works) but that is another matter. > > When this happens there is often a "frozen" stream listed in > pavucontrol. It just sits there never ending. In order to reload the > alsa driver, I have to kill pa as it is "hogging" the sound card due to > this frozen stream. When I kill pa (or indeed just the stream), > gnome-power-manager "goes nuts". It eats memory and loads the system > quite heavily. > > I have to kill gnome-power-manager. > > > I initially put this down to g-p-m doing something silly, but looking at > the sound code there is very little in the way of loops and it just > off-loads to gstreamer. > > Last night, I noticed that a similar thing had happened but this time I > had lots of pidgin streams "saved up". I started killing them and the > same thing happened, pidgin started going nuts and eating ram. > > So the common factor is gstreamer. Does anyone have any info on this? I don't have any more info myself, but to help bug triaging I thought I would mention that this is probably the same issue as pulseaudio bug #188, and maybe related to #251. And, if anyone is interested, this is Debian bug #459915. -- CJ van den Berg mailto:cj at vdbonline.com xmpp:cj at vdbonline.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20080304/16fec350/attachment.pgp>
