[pulseaudio-discuss] exiting on resume of rhythmbox

[Lennart Poettering]

On Wed, 24.06.09 14:18, Brian J. Murrell (brian at interlinx.bc.ca) wrote:

> On Sun, 2009-06-07 at 01:32 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> > 
> > Hmm, could you try to play around with oprofile a bit to find out
> > where exactly PA starts to spin?
> > 
> > http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/HowToUseOProfile
> 
> I tried this.  I had to use the --no-vmlinux option:
> 
> $ sudo opcontrol --no-vmlinux
> 
> Then I did:
> 
> $ sudo opcontrol --start
> 
> and then resumed my audio application.  Unfortunately it did not put PA
> into a loop, so I paused my audio app and did:
> 
> $ sudo opcontrol --stop
> 
> and then
> 
> $ sudo opcontrol --start
> 
> and then resumed my app.  Still no CPU eating loop.  I had to repeat the
> above a few times before PA would again chew the CPU.
> 
> So I let PA and my audio app run for a while chewing the CPU, however:
> 
> $ sudo opreport -l /usr/bin/pulseaudio
> 
> only produces:
> 
> opreport error: basic_string::erase

Looks like a bug in your distribution's packages. Please file a bug in
your distro's bug tracker and ask them to fix this.

Lennart

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