CJ van den Berg wrote: > 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. Ahh #188 is a bug from Fred, a fellow Mandriva packager... I'll see if we can narrow down the test cases a bit. The #251 one also looks likely. I wonder if this applies to just killing streams or all of pa... <test> Yes it does. Col
