Created attachment 359875 [details] the /var/log/messages output during 'crash' Description of problem: while i was watching a movie with vlc, the system frozed for a while and then vlc got killed and the system recovered. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: what i've seen in /var/log/messages is attached Expected results: Additional info:
Apparently the OOM killer became invoked and killed VLC because it appeared to be the memory hogger. Why do you think this is a problem in PA or ALSA? Hm, is VLC even packaged in fedora? I'd like to reassign this to VLC but I see now pkg for it?
(In reply to comment #1) > Apparently the OOM killer became invoked and killed VLC because it appeared to > be the memory hogger. Why do you think this is a problem in PA or ALSA? because the log says pulseaudio[2339]: alsa-util.c: Most likely this is a bug in the ALSA driver 'snd_hda_intel'. Please report this issue to the ALSA developers. > > Hm, is VLC even packaged in fedora? I'd like to reassign this to VLC but I see > now pkg for it? no, vlc is not packaged by fedora. if this is not a pulseaudio bug, and if it's not alsa-drivers bug, then we should close this bug.
hmm, i was wondering, whatever (user) processes are running, they are not supposed to (almost) kill the system, right? then why 2 GB were not enough for: deluge + firefox + k3b + vlc ? maybe it's a kernel bug after all ...
(In reply to comment #2) > (In reply to comment #1) > > Apparently the OOM killer became invoked and killed VLC because it appeared to > > be the memory hogger. Why do you think this is a problem in PA or ALSA? > > because the log says > > pulseaudio[2339]: alsa-util.c: Most likely this is a bug in the ALSA driver > 'snd_hda_intel'. Please report this issue to the ALSA developers. Nah, this is unrelated. > no, vlc is not packaged by fedora. if this is not a pulseaudio bug, and if it's > not alsa-drivers bug, then we should close this bug. Probably.
(In reply to comment #3) > hmm, i was wondering, whatever (user) processes are running, they are not > supposed to (almost) kill the system, right? then why 2 GB were not enough for: > deluge + firefox + k3b + vlc ? maybe it's a kernel bug after all ... Nah, something is leaking memory. The kernel figured it was VLC. Which is why I think this should be reassigned to it. Closing now, as you suggested. Please file a bug against VLC upstream or wherever you got your packages from.
maybe it's unrelated, but trying to listen some music (mp3s) with mplayer,xmms,or rhythmbox on another system (thinkpad x40) leaded to many pulseaudio messages on /var/log/messages while the system was often "freezing". i eventually give up listening music. this system was not updated, and unfortunately kernel will not be updated since updating kernel will leave me without wireless. i'll add the details after updating everything else and (of course?) rebooting.
Created attachment 360010 [details] /var/log/messages filtered by pulseaudio that's the /var/log/messages (filtered) from thinkpad x40, before and after update. maybe there was a bug in alsalib, after update i can play the same music i was unable to play earlier. thank you very much for assistance.
snd_pcm_avail() returned a value that is exceptionally large: 4294935988 bytes (24347709 ms). Your audio driver is (was?) broken. See bug 506075 for details. If this problem is fixed now, maybe you updated your kernel?