[pulseaudio-discuss] Very crackly audio and crashing from cpu overload

[Chris]

2009/1/8 Ozan Çağlayan <ozan at pardus.org.tr>:
> I suggest you to try pulseaudio 0.9.10 (or wait Lennart to release a new
> one :)) to see if the problems occurs or not. We're using 0.9.10 and
> it's really flawless.

Actually I'm on 0.9.13-6! Tesekkur ederim. :) Do you mean I should go
back to an earlier version?

I realised I wasn't a member of the various pulse groups so I fixed
that. It didn't really improve anything. Then I tried changing the
tsched parameter to 1, so I now have:

load-module module-hal-detect tsched=1

It's much much better but still far from perfect. Amarok hasn't
crashed yet (fingers crossed) and CPU usage is much better. I'm still
getting lots of skips in the audio when playing back an mp3 in amarok
though.

The last few log messages are below:

Jan  8 21:57:51 localhost pulseaudio[7731]: pid.c: Stale PID file, overwriting.
Jan  8 21:57:51 localhost pulseaudio[7731]: alsa-util.c: Device hw:0
doesn't support 2 channels, changed to 10.
Jan  8 21:57:51 localhost pulseaudio[7731]: alsa-util.c: Device hw:0
doesn't support sample format s16le, changed to s32le.
Jan  8 21:57:51 localhost pulseaudio[7731]: alsa-util.c: Cannot find
fallback mixer control "PCM".
Jan  8 21:57:51 localhost pulseaudio[7731]: alsa-util.c: Device hw:0
doesn't support 2 channels, changed to 12.
Jan  8 21:57:51 localhost pulseaudio[7731]: alsa-util.c: Device hw:0
doesn't support sample format s16le, changed to s32le.
Jan  8 21:57:51 localhost pulseaudio[7731]: alsa-util.c: Cannot find
fallback mixer control "Mic".
Jan  8 21:57:51 localhost pulseaudio[7731]: module-alsa-source.c:
Increasing wakeup watermark to 5.99 ms
Jan  8 21:57:51 localhost pulseaudio[7744]: pid.c: Daemon already running.
Jan  8 21:57:52 localhost pulseaudio[7731]: module-alsa-source.c:
Increasing wakeup watermark to 11.97 ms
Jan  8 21:57:52 localhost pulseaudio[7731]: module-alsa-sink.c:
Increasing wakeup watermark to 5.99 ms
Jan  8 22:03:39 localhost pulseaudio[7731]: module-alsa-sink.c:
Increasing wakeup watermark to 11.97 ms
Jan  8 22:04:16 localhost pulseaudio[7731]: module-alsa-sink.c:
Increasing wakeup watermark to 23.95 ms
Jan  8 22:04:34 localhost pulseaudio[7731]: module-alsa-sink.c:
Increasing wakeup watermark to 47.89 ms
Jan  8 22:04:40 localhost pulseaudio[7731]: module-alsa-sink.c:
Increasing wakeup watermark to 71.27 ms

Thanks, Chris.