setting /etc/pulse/default.pa with the lines below seems to fix this issue .ifexists module-udev-detect.so load-module module-udev-detect tsched_buffer_size=16384 realtime-scheduling was commented out and I belive the default is "no" Many Many thanks Tanu On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 6:49 AM, Tanu Kaskinen <tanuk at iki.fi> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > pulseaudio-discuss mailing list > pulseaudio-discuss at lists.freedesktop.org > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20170403/c4ab9d68/attachment.html>