[pulseaudio-discuss] pulseaudio - high memory usage

[Thomas Meyer]

Hi,

should pulseaudio actually use that much memory?

$ cat status
Name:	pulseaudio
State:	S (sleeping)
Tgid:	1972
Ngid:	0
Pid:	1972
PPid:	1
TracerPid:	0
Uid:	1000	1000	1000	1000
Gid:	500	500	500	500
FDSize:	64
Groups:	4 6 10 11 36 63 464 468 469 500 
VmPeak:	 2326912 kB
VmSize:	 2326912 kB
VmLck:	       0 kB
VmPin:	       0 kB
VmHWM:	 1843468 kB
VmRSS:	 1843468 kB
VmData:	 1987020 kB
VmStk:	     136 kB
VmExe:	      80 kB
VmLib:	   15592 kB
VmPTE:	    4164 kB
VmSwap:	     524 kB
Threads:	3
SigQ:	0/62970
SigPnd:	0000000000000000
ShdPnd:	0000000000000000
SigBlk:	0000000000000000
SigIgn:	0000000000381000
SigCgt:	0000000180004a43
CapInh:	0000000000000000
CapPrm:	0000000000000000
CapEff:	0000000000000000
CapBnd:	0000001fffffffff
Seccomp:	0
Cpus_allowed:	1
Cpus_allowed_list:	0
Mems_allowed:	1
Mems_allowed_list:	0
voluntary_ctxt_switches:	12348713
nonvoluntary_ctxt_switches:	4858656

$ journalctl -r _PID=1972
-- Logs begin at Sa 2013-06-29 22:06:32 CEST, end at Mi 2014-01-29
00:31:29 CET. --
Jan 24 18:45:44 localhost.localdomain pulseaudio[1972]: [alsa-sink-USB
Audio] alsa-util.c: Could not recover from POLLERR|POLLNVAL|POLLHUP with
snd_pcm_prepare(): Kein passendes Gerät gefund
Jan 24 18:45:44 localhost.localdomain pulseaudio[1972]: [alsa-sink-USB
Audio] alsa-util.c: Got POLLNVAL from ALSA
Jan 24 18:42:14 localhost.localdomain pulseaudio[1972]: [alsa-sink-USB
Audio] alsa-util.c: Could not recover from POLLERR|POLLNVAL|POLLHUP with
snd_pcm_prepare(): Kein passendes Gerät gefund
Jan 24 18:42:14 localhost.localdomain pulseaudio[1972]: [alsa-sink-USB
Audio] alsa-util.c: Got POLLNVAL from ALSA

Name       : pulseaudio
Architektur : x86_64
Version    : 4.0
Ausgabe    : 9.gitf81e3.fc20
Größe : 3.1 M
Quelle      : installed
Aus Quelle  : updates
Zusammenfassung: Improved Linux Sound Server
URL        : http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio
Lizenz      : LGPLv2+
Beschreibung: PulseAudio is a sound server for Linux and other Unix like
operating
            : systems. It is intended to be an improved drop-in
replacement for the
            : Enlightened Sound Daemon (ESOUND).

$ uptime
 00:33:10 up 8 days