Bug 464816

Please run pulseaudio -vvv.

What kind of audio driver is this?

Created attachment 318173 [details]
pulseaudio log

information about audio driver: http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=ddbf3008b84ce8c42ab6b734c13ac7e9558c103d


log attached

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pulseaudio log

I have the same problem...linked above. 

My audiocard:

* lspci

[lfoppiano@sboing ~]$ /sbin/lspci | grep Audio
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)


* lsmod

[lfoppiano@sboing ~]$ /sbin/lsmod | grep snd
snd_hda_intel         435244  1 
snd_seq_dummy          11396  0 
snd_seq_oss            37824  0 
snd_seq_midi_event     14976  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                57872  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device         15124  3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss            45568  0 
snd_mixer_oss          22912  2 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                79240  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              28688  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc         16528  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
snd_hwdep              16136  1 snd_hda_intel
snd                    64120  9 snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_hwdep
soundcore              14864  2 snd


* aplay 

[lfoppiano@sboing ~]$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: STAC92xx Digital [STAC92xx Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

I also have the same problem. This started a month or so ago. I thought an update would come out and fix this, but nothing has yet.

Pulseaudio will work fine 99% of the time. However, when the computer is under heavy usage pulseaudio will choke and quit with the lines:
Soft CPU time limit exhausted, terminating.
Hard CPU time limit exhausted, terminating forcibly.

Xeon E3110 3ghz (45nm dual-core)
card 1: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: AD198x Analog [AD198x Analog]

This can also happen if there's moderate load, say playing back H.264 1080P video in totem, but I can definitely reproduce it every time under heavy load. Heavy load being a 3D game such as a game through Wine.

I've never seen Pulseaudio die under any other conditions. If the CPU load is 25% or lower it never dies. Executing `pulseaudio -D --log-target=syslog` gets things going again of course.

(In reply to comment #5)

> Pulseaudio will work fine 99% of the time. However, when the computer is under
> heavy usage pulseaudio will choke and quit with the lines:

[...]

> Xeon E3110 3ghz (45nm dual-core)
> card 1: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: AD198x Analog [AD198x Analog]
> 
> This can also happen if there's moderate load, say playing back H.264 1080P
> video in totem, but I can definitely reproduce it every time under heavy load.
> Heavy load being a 3D game such as a game through Wine.
> 
> I've never seen Pulseaudio die under any other conditions. If the CPU load is
> 25% or lower it never dies. Executing `pulseaudio -D --log-target=syslog` gets
> things going again of course.

you've got the point, IMHO the problem is when CPU is under stress


Luca

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pulseaudio log

I've attached the log output of `pulseaudio -vvv` from my system. After playing three hi-definition videos pulseaudio died. It was about 20 minutes into the third video. Each video are about 45 minutes long. As you can see from the log, there is nothing visually striking about the death of pulse. CPU usage was averaging 25%, so instead of dying instantly under higher stress, it took multiple videos at a lower stress level to kill.

I'm seeing the same problem here on an ICH8M controller (HDA Intel driver), even though I didn't see it connected to the processor load, here it dies even if the only running thing is Rhythmbox. Also, it does it toally randomly, it can die after a minute or after hours... I'm attaching the output of pulseaudio -vvv.
Ah yes, system is F9 x86_64.

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pulseaudio log

I have same bug. it randomly happens when I listen music.
pulseaudio eats one core of my CPU and stop playing music and after some time hangs with 
Soft CPU time limit exhausted, terminating.
Hard CPU time limit exhausted, terminating forcibly.
if I run pulseaudio with --no-cpu-limit parameter it only stops for minute

strace shows me at this moment 

[timon@localhost ~]$ sudo strace -p 4115
Process 4115 attached - interrupt to quit
futex(0x8cb65b8, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 0, NULL

if you give me some info how to debug this under gdb, I think I can do this :)

[timon@localhost ~]$ rpm -q pulseaudio
pulseaudio-0.9.10-2.fc9.i386

this bug similar to http://www.pulseaudio.org/ticket/245

I was experiencing this issue as well, with an Intel HD Audio chipset (Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01) to be precise).  The solution in comment #10 (and 11) of bug 462200 appears to have solved it for me.

I confirm comment #11. Using snd-hda-intel.ko from kernel 2.6.27 solves this problem. So seems that this is kernel bug and not a pulseaudio bug.

This is a dupe of bug 462200

If you stress the CPU it might happen that PA gets scheduled less often then it should and it notices a drop-out, in which case it will ask to be woken up earlier next time to play sure. However that increases the CPU load and might then end up causing the CPU load limiter to become active.

Hmm, Eric is right, this actually looks a lot like a dupe of bug 462200

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