Bug 456623

Summary: Use pavucontrol -> pulseaudio uses high cpu usage.
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: sangu <sangu.fedora>
Component: pavucontrolAssignee: Lennart Poettering <lpoetter>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description sangu 2008-07-25 00:49:38 UTC 
Description of problem:
Use pavucontrol ->  pulseaudio uses high cpu usage.

Only after Lanuching pavucontrol, pulseaudio uses cpu usage 40%.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
0.9.7-0.1.git20080715.fc10.i386

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Launch pavucontrol.
2. See pulseaudio on top.
3.
  
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Expected results:


Additional info:
pulseaudio-0.9.11-1.fc10.i386.
Comment 1 Lennart Poettering 2008-08-06 14:10:20 UTC 
pavucontrol now shows a volume meter for each device. For that it will configure PA for low-latency mode. Low-latency means high-CPU load. This is hence expected behaviour, somewhat.

OTOH it might be a good idea to not configure it for such a low latency though.
Comment 2 sangu 2008-10-02 15:39:49 UTC 
Created attachment 319252 [details]
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While pavucontrol works, "D: module-alsa-source.c: Wakeup from ALSA! INPUT" prints fast continually.
$ pulseaudio -vvv

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D: module-alsa-source.c: Wakeup from ALSA! INPUT
D: module-alsa-source.c: Wakeup from ALSA! INPUT
D: module-alsa-source.c: Wakeup from ALSA! INPUT
D: module-alsa-source.c: Wakeup from ALSA! INPUT
D: module-alsa-source.c: Wakeup from ALSA! INPUT
D: module-alsa-source.c: Wakeup from ALSA! INPUT
D: module-alsa-source.c: Wakeup from ALSA! INPUT
D: module-alsa-source.c: Wakeup from ALSA! INPUT
D: module-alsa-source.c: Wakeup from ALSA! INPUT
D: module-alsa-source.c: Wakeup from ALSA! INPUT
D: module-alsa-source.c: Wakeup from ALSA! INPUT
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Comment 3 Lennart Poettering 2008-10-24 20:58:28 UTC 
I am closing this now since as mentioned this is kind of expected behaviour.

The "wakeup form ALSA" messages might be a sign of bug 462200.