'Twas brillig, and Lennart Poettering at 10/08/09 19:41 did gyre and gimble: > On Mon, 10.08.09 12:24, Colin Guthrie (gmane at colin.guthr.ie) wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Anyone noticed this? >> >> The CPU usuage of g-s-d and g-v-c-a going through the roof (with PA >> following it). >> >> Seems to be getting stuck in some kind of loop. >> >> I have to kill both g-v-c-a and g-s-d to get things back to normal. > > g-v-c-a? I onlyknow g-v-c, What's that -a about? gnome-volume-control-applet i.e. the little thingy in the tray to control the volume. > Smells like one of those g-v-c feedback loops. i.e. user triggers > volume change, g-v-c forwards that to PA. PA informs all clients about > the vol change including g-v-c. g-v-c forwards that to gtk. gtk > informs g-v-c about the changes it just made to the UI, pavucontrol > forwards that to PA, GOTO 10. > > Under no circumstances g-v-c should forward anything coming in from > PA back to PA. And under no circumstances g-v-c should forward > anything coming from gtk back to gtk. As it stands now this is however > broken in g-v-c. > > A while back I sat down and fixed a couple of those issues, but I > think there are a number of issues left. > > Please file bugs against g-v-c regarding this. Sure I'll try and write it up and work out a trigger too. Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]
