On Fri, 2017-03-31 at 10:14 +1300, John Nunnington wrote: > the process is killed. > > julie at silverstone:~$ LANG=C pulseaudio -vvvv --log-time=1 > > ~/pulseverbose.log>&1 > Killed This probably happens, because pulseaudio consumes more CPU time in a realtime thread than the kernel allows. To work around this problem, you can disable realtime scheduling with this option in /etc/pulse/daemon.conf: realtime-scheduling = no As an alternative, you can also try reducing the buffer size (smaller buffer means that pulseaudio processes audio more often, but spends less time each time). Pass the "tsched_buffer_size" argument to module- udev-detect in /etc/pulse/default.pa. For example: load-module module-udev-detect tsched_buffer_size=50000 The buffer size is in bytes. 50000 bytes corresponds to about 283 milliseconds with a typical audio format. -- Tanu https://www.patreon.com/tanuk