Bug 462067

Summary: Pulseaudio causing processor spikes
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Paul F. Johnson <paul>
Component: pulseaudioAssignee: Lennart Poettering <lpoetter>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Paul F. Johnson 2008-09-12 12:17:35 UTC 
Description of problem:
When using pulseaudio (and xmms, but also occurs with flash, mplayer and anything using pulseaudio), every 10 seconds or so there is a stop in the music and the processor usage spikes from between 0-1% on pulse audio up to between 30 and 40% for a second or 2 then returns to 0-1%

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
0.9.12-4

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Ensure that pulse audio is running and play something
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Actual results:
Every 10 seconds the music stops and the processor hits between 30 and 40%

Expected results:
No spikes

Additional info:
Comment 1 Lennart Poettering 2008-10-03 13:04:02 UTC 
Please run "pulseaudio -vvv" in a terminal (a pulseaudio -k might be necessary before). And paste what that outputs when those "spikes" happen.
Comment 2 Lennart Poettering 2008-10-03 13:05:32 UTC 
oh, and what driver is this? I am pretty sure this might actually be a duplicate of bug 462200.
Comment 3 Paul F. Johnson 2008-10-03 13:43:49 UTC 
Created attachment 319363 [details]
Pulseaudio results
Comment 4 Paul F. Johnson 2008-10-03 13:45:19 UTC 
The sound from xmms completely stops (it also happens for anything producing sound, but I use xmms the most often). I'm using a SoundBlaster card if that's of any use... emu10k1 by the looks of lsmod
Comment 5 Lennart Poettering 2008-10-03 20:30:27 UTC 
I am pretty sure this is a driver bug in emu10k. Some fuckup in snd_pcm_update_avail() or snd_pcm_delay()
Comment 6 antonio montagnani 2008-10-19 10:15:30 UTC 
Created attachment 320793 [details]
output of pulseaudio test

I am running on an Intel system.My profile is:
http://www.smolts.org/show?uuid=pub_2dabf29b-bd26-4825-b7ed-ac1db85fec24

Sometimes with older kernels I didn't suffer so heavy with this.Latest are a  disaster
Comment 7 antonio montagnani 2008-10-20 11:41:16 UTC 
2.6.27.3-30.rc1.fc10.i686 kernel is playing fine.
Is it an issue with pulseaudio or the kernel???
Comment 8 Paul F. Johnson 2008-10-20 11:56:11 UTC 
Looks like the kernel is at fault...
Comment 9 Lennart Poettering 2008-10-24 20:53:55 UTC 
This sounds a lot like a duplicate of 462200.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 462200 ***