[pulseaudio-discuss] 306MB of VM for a sound daemon?

[Brian J. Murrell]

306MB of VM seems a bit excessive for a sound daemon, yes?

$ cat /proc/6828/status
Name:	pulseaudio
State:	S (sleeping)
Tgid:	6828
Pid:	6828
PPid:	1
TracerPid:	0
Uid:	1001	1001	1001	1001
Gid:	1001	1001	1001	1001
FDSize:	256
Groups:	4 20 24 25 29 30 44 46 106 107 108 111 121 133 1001 1010 1011 2000 
VmPeak:	  450088 kB
VmSize:	  313528 kB
VmLck:	       0 kB
VmHWM:	  206832 kB
VmRSS:	   98112 kB
VmData:	  236088 kB
VmStk:	      84 kB
VmExe:	      64 kB
VmLib:	    8732 kB
VmPTE:	     308 kB
Threads:	6
SigQ:	0/16382
SigPnd:	0000000000000000
ShdPnd:	0000000000000000
SigBlk:	0000000000000000
SigIgn:	0000000000381000
SigCgt:	0000000180004a43
CapInh:	0000000000000000
CapPrm:	0000000000000000
CapEff:	0000000000000000
CapBnd:	ffffffffffffffff
Cpus_allowed:	3
Cpus_allowed_list:	0-1
Mems_allowed:	1
Mems_allowed_list:	0
voluntary_ctxt_switches:	189323036
nonvoluntary_ctxt_switches:	1224202

Seems it's even been as high as 450MB!

This is 0.9.22, 0.9.22~0.9.21+stable-queue-32-g8478-
0ubuntu14~~karmic~ubuntuaudiodev1 to be exact.

Thots?

b.