Bug 688282 - 'canary thread starving' message when suspend/resume computer
Summary: 'canary thread starving' message when suspend/resume computer
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: rtkit
Version: 21
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Lennart Poettering
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: 1013775
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-03-16 17:35 UTC by Oliver Henshaw
Modified: 2015-12-02 16:02 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Clone Of:
: 1013775 (view as bug list)
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Last Closed: 2015-12-02 02:34:43 UTC
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Description Oliver Henshaw 2011-03-16 17:35:58 UTC
Description of problem:

After I suspend/resume my machine, I see a message saying "The canary thread is apparently starving. Taking action." in /var/log/messages.

I see this messages on F13 and also when booting a recent (kde) nightly.


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

rtkit-0.10-1.fc15.x86_64


How Reproducible:

* Suspend + Resume.
* View /var/log/messages


# grep rtkit /var/log/messages 
Mar 16 15:26:38 localhost rtkit-daemon[2184]: Successfully made thread 2183 of process 2183 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '500' high priority at nice level -11.
Mar 16 15:26:38 localhost rtkit-daemon[2184]: Successfully made thread 2194 of process 2183 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '500' RT at priority 5.
Mar 16 15:26:38 localhost rtkit-daemon[2184]: Successfully made thread 2195 of process 2183 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '500' RT at priority 5.
Mar 16 15:26:38 localhost rtkit-daemon[2184]: Successfully made thread 2196 of process 2183 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '500' RT at priority 5.
Mar 16 15:26:38 localhost rtkit-daemon[2184]: Successfully made thread 2197 of process 2197 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '500' high priority at nice level -11.
Mar 16 15:26:38 localhost rtkit-daemon[2184]: Successfully made thread 2199 of process 2199 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '500' high priority at nice level -11.
Mar 16 15:34:41 localhost rtkit-daemon[2184]: The canary thread is apparently starving. Taking action.
Mar 16 15:34:41 localhost rtkit-daemon[2184]: Demoting known real-time threads.
Mar 16 15:34:41 localhost rtkit-daemon[2184]: Successfully demoted thread 2196 of process 2183 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio).
Mar 16 15:34:41 localhost rtkit-daemon[2184]: Successfully demoted thread 2195 of process 2183 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio).
Mar 16 15:34:41 localhost rtkit-daemon[2184]: Successfully demoted thread 2194 of process 2183 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio).
Mar 16 15:34:41 localhost rtkit-daemon[2184]: Successfully demoted thread 2183 of process 2183 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio).
Mar 16 15:34:41 localhost rtkit-daemon[2184]: Demoted 4 threads.

Comment 1 Oliver Henshaw 2011-11-09 11:51:41 UTC
Persists in F16:

pulseaudio-0.9.23-1.fc16.x86_64
rtkit-0.10-1.fc16.x86_64
kernel-3.1.0-7.fc16.x86_64

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Comment 3 Oliver Henshaw 2012-08-08 11:33:31 UTC
No change:

pulseaudio-0.9.23-1.fc16.x86_64
rtkit-0.10-1.fc16.x86_64
kernel-3.4.6-1.fc16.x86_64

Comment 4 Elad Alfassa 2012-08-08 11:50:17 UTC
Changing to NEW as requested by Oliver.



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Comment 5 Lennart Poettering 2012-08-09 01:54:09 UTC
We are kinda waiting for a sane kernel interface to be notified about system suspends, so that we can exclude scheduling issues causes by suspends from our usual logic.

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Comment 8 Samuel Sieb 2013-02-14 18:02:45 UTC
This still happens on F18, although less frequently now.

Comment 9 Oliver Henshaw 2013-06-18 14:04:23 UTC
Updated for F17:

pulseaudio-1.1-9.fc17.x86_64
rtkit-0.10-2.fc17.x86_64
kernel-3.8.13-100.fc17.x86_64

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Comment 12 Samuel Sieb 2013-10-26 01:29:29 UTC
I still get this on F19.

Comment 13 Oliver Henshaw 2014-12-01 14:27:53 UTC
See recent discussion on bug #1013775 comment #16 onwards (but note that that bug concentrates on a solution for RHEL6)

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Comment 15 Oliver Henshaw 2015-01-09 16:53:07 UTC
Not tested on F21, but the fix proposed on bug #1013775 comment #19 onwards is not yet present in the fedora packages. On that basis, I'm updating the version.

If anyone tests on F21 and finds different, please yell.

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