Bug 1918404 - High CPU usage for pipewire-pulseaudio
Summary: High CPU usage for pipewire-pulseaudio
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: pipewire
Version: 33
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Wim Taymans
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2021-01-20 16:17 UTC by Vasco Rodrigues
Modified: 2021-02-06 01:17 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: pipewire-0.3.21-2.fc33
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Last Closed: 2021-02-04 10:23:21 UTC
Type: Bug
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PCI list of devices (2.89 KB, text/plain)
2021-01-20 16:17 UTC, Vasco Rodrigues 		no flags Details
pw-top (9.69 KB, text/plain)
2021-01-23 14:40 UTC, Vasco Rodrigues 		no flags Details
pw info (68.44 KB, text/plain)
2021-01-23 15:20 UTC, Vasco Rodrigues 		no flags Details
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Description Vasco Rodrigues 2021-01-20 16:17:53 UTC 
Created attachment 1749111 [details]
PCI list of devices

Description of problem:
High CPU usage for pipewire-pulseaudio

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
0.3.13


How reproducible:
All the time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Running the workstation as normal

Actual results:
High CPU usage

Expected results:
Lower CPU usage

Additional info:
    PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU  %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND                                                              
 791962 vvro      20   0 3539588 636784 139016 S  29,4   1,9   8:57.94 Web Content                                                          
 791628 vvro      20   0 5194524   1,4g 510056 S  22,1   4,4 141:21.76 firefox                                                              
   2060 vvro      20   0 5510360 467084 180320 S   6,1   1,4 118:52.35 gnome-shell                                                          
   2230 vvro       9 -11  207688 105356   5144 S   5,5   0,3 357:42.88 pipewire-pulse                                                       
 792027 vvro      20   0 3469072 391468 145136 S   3,7   1,2  30:35.87 Web Content                                                          
   2449 vvro       9 -11  135988  32900   7528 S   3,1   0,1 175:54.02 pipewire                                                             
 791887 vvro      20   0 3353824 331456 164332 S   3,1   1,0  14:44.34 Web Content                                                          
   4045 vvro      20   0  161692   4096   3456 S   2,5   0,0 168:02.86 sd_dummy                                                             
   1029 polkitd   20   0 3176700  40840  17524 S   1,8   0,1  15:16.73 polkitd                                                              
   4039 vvro      20   0  466080   7876   4980 S   1,8   0,0 165:16.50 sd_espeak-ng
Comment 1 Wim Taymans 2021-01-22 13:10:41 UTC 
what's the output of pw-top?
Comment 2 Vasco Rodrigues 2021-01-23 14:40:58 UTC 
Created attachment 1750025 [details]
pw-top
Comment 3 Vasco Rodrigues 2021-01-23 14:47:01 UTC 
The sound output device is thru the speakers on a TV with HDMI, which goes off when it goes on standby, so the output appears and goes.
Comment 4 Vasco Rodrigues 2021-01-23 15:20:19 UTC 
Created attachment 1750056 [details]
pw info
Comment 5 Vasco Rodrigues 2021-01-28 13:23:33 UTC 
No longer happens with pipewire-pulseaudio-0.3.20-1
Comment 6 Wim Taymans 2021-02-04 10:23:21 UTC 
thanks for testing
Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2021-02-04 10:39:31 UTC 
FEDORA-2021-f394ea10e9 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 33. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2021-f394ea10e9
Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2021-02-05 01:27:26 UTC 
FEDORA-2021-d6d23603c6 has been pushed to the Fedora 33 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --advisory=FEDORA-2021-d6d23603c6`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2021-d6d23603c6

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.
Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2021-02-06 01:17:55 UTC 
FEDORA-2021-d6d23603c6 has been pushed to the Fedora 33 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.
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