[pulseaudio-discuss] asyncq.c: q overrun, queuing locally

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Chris at 29/12/09 02:43 did gyre and gimble:
> I noticed tonight that when I was copying a 1.2Gb file to my thumb drive
> that it took forever. From a suggestion in another list I ran in a
> terminal pulseaudio -k ; pulseaudio -vvvv. I've attached the output. One
> other thing of note, after disabling pulseaudio I was able to copy the
> file in around 3minutes. In the previous example I had to stop the copy
> process after 15 minutes at only 50%. This is on:
> 
> Mandriva 2010
> pulseaudio 0.9.19-7mdv2010.0
> Gnome 2.28.0

I'm surprised that PA is affecting the file transfer in such a dramatic
way. Is PA thrashing the CPU (in top) or disk IO (iotop) while this is
happening?

Can you repeat this with PA 0.9.21 (it's in main/testing repository for
2010 and will become an official update sometime soon)

Col

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