[pulseaudio-discuss] Gnome settings-daemon/volume-control-applet going nuts.

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Lennart Poettering at 10/08/09 19:41 did gyre and gimble:
> On Mon, 10.08.09 12:24, Colin Guthrie (gmane at colin.guthr.ie) wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> Anyone noticed this?
>>
>> The CPU usuage of g-s-d and g-v-c-a going through the roof (with PA  
>> following it).
>>
>> Seems to be getting stuck in some kind of loop.
>>
>> I have to kill both g-v-c-a and g-s-d to get things back to normal.
> 
> g-v-c-a? I onlyknow g-v-c, What's that -a about?

gnome-volume-control-applet

i.e. the little thingy in the tray to control the volume.

> Smells like one of those g-v-c feedback loops. i.e. user triggers
> volume change, g-v-c forwards that to PA. PA informs all clients about
> the vol change including g-v-c. g-v-c forwards that to gtk. gtk
> informs g-v-c about the changes it just made to the UI, pavucontrol
> forwards that to PA, GOTO 10.
> 
> Under no circumstances g-v-c should forward anything coming in from
> PA back to PA. And under no circumstances g-v-c should forward
> anything coming from gtk back to gtk. As it stands now this is however
> broken in g-v-c.
> 
> A while back I sat down and fixed a couple of those issues, but I
> think there are a number of issues left.
> 
> Please file bugs against g-v-c regarding this.

Sure I'll try and write it up and work out a trigger too.

Col

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