Description of problem: CPU consumption goes over 100% Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Version : 0.9.21 Vendor: Fedora Project Release : 4.fc12 Build Date: Mon 18 Jan 2010 02:15:00 AM CET How reproducible: Run Fedora 12, use Firefox, Thunderbird. Watch youtube videos. See CPU consumption go to 100+% after a while. PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 392 udo 9 -11 497m 6396 4688 R 100.1 0.2 33:24.89 pulseaudio 1027 udo 20 0 423m 122m 20m R 83.8 3.1 17:14.18 npviewer.bin 979 udo 20 0 829m 180m 25m S 3.7 4.6 2:49.18 firefox This is on AMD Phenom(tm) 9550 Quad-Core Processor so one full core is wasted for playing cd-quality audio from youtube vids. (!!) Steps to Reproduce: 1. See above. 2. 3. Actual results: See above. Expected results: Negligible CPU consumption for this type of usage pattern. Additional info: $ rpm -qa|grep puls pulseaudio-0.9.21-4.fc12.x86_64 xmms-pulse-0.9.4-8.fc12.x86_64 alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.22-1.fc12.x86_64 pulseaudio-libs-glib2-0.9.21-4.fc12.x86_64 pulseaudio-utils-0.9.21-4.fc12.x86_64 pulseaudio-module-zeroconf-0.9.21-4.fc12.x86_64 pulseaudio-module-x11-0.9.21-4.fc12.x86_64 pulseaudio-module-bluetooth-0.9.21-4.fc12.x86_64 pulseaudio-gdm-hooks-0.9.21-4.fc12.x86_64 pulseaudio-libs-0.9.21-4.fc12.i686 pulseaudio-esound-compat-0.9.21-4.fc12.x86_64 alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.22-1.fc12.i686 pulseaudio-libs-0.9.21-4.fc12.x86_64 pulseaudio-module-gconf-0.9.21-4.fc12.x86_64 a `killall pulseaudio` fixes the issue. pulseaudio is restarted and consumes less CPU for a while.
I sometimes notice the effects mentioned at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=564390 when the CPU is at 100% for pulseaudio.
I also noticed an incomplete sound for `new mail` as described at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=559467.
Due to dependency-hell, downgrading is not as intuitive as `yum downgrade pulseaudio`. This, together with the combination of the three observed issues this does not imply that the bug should be lower in priority or be labelled 'duplicate'.
(to be clear: downgrading hasn't happened/worked for me)
I see multiple lines in /var/log/messages saying stuff like: protocol-esound.c: pulsecore/protocol-esound.c: Failed to create sink input. or ratelimit.c: 14 events suppressed or sink-input.c: Failed to create sink input: too many inputs per sink.
Please provide the output of "pacmd ls" when this happens.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 559467 ***
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