On Fri, 2013-09-20 at 09:29 +0200, David Henningsson wrote: > On 09/20/2013 05:44 AM, Arun Raghavan wrote: > > We're hitting the 32 sink-input limit quite often with increasing use of > > PA by web browsers, so let's increase this limit. > > Does this increase the risk of us being the target of attacks; i e, if a > web browser deliberately starts 255 streams, would we risk getting > killed by using too much rtprio cpu time? As Tanu says, this doesn't open up a new vector, really. > Btw; is there a specific web browser you're looking at? webkitgtk+ uses PulseAudio via GStreamer and Firefox has a PulseAudio backend that maps each stream to a PA stream. Chrome/Chromium also has as PA backend, but I don't recall off the top of my head if they do their own mixing. -- Arun
