[pulseaudio-discuss] Soft CPU time limit exhausted, terminating. (WAS using PA with multiple sound cards)

[Mark Greenwood]

BUMP... Anyone? Lennart? Are you ignoring this because you know you've fixed it? I'd really like this feature to work, as I'm sure would you. Your silence worries me.

To re-summarise - with zeroconf discovery and announcing enabled, I cannot even open pavucontrol because all my pulseaudio's quit due to CPU overload. This is new in 0.9.14 and later. If I'm being an idiot, just tell me, I'll be happy.

Thanks.

Mark

On Friday 27 March 2009 22:41:21 Mark Greenwood wrote:
> OK I've run pulseaudio -vvvv on both end of my network. The logs are big so rather than pollute the list I've uploaded the ends of each of them to here
> 
> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/fatgerman/local_end.txt            -  log from the end which is discovering network sinks
> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/fatgerman/remote_end.txt   -  log from the network sink
> 
> In summary, as soon as I open pavucontrol the remote end is giving lots of
> 
> D: protocol-native.c: Requesting rewind due to end of underrun.                                                                 
> .. and then, later
> D: sink-input.c: Requesting rewind due to corking                                                                               
> D: module-suspend-on-idle.c: Sink alsa_output.pci_1106_3059_sound_card_0_alsa_playback_0 becomes idle.                          
> I: module-suspend-on-idle.c: Source alsa_input.pci_1106_3059_sound_card_0_alsa_capture_0 idle for too long, suspending ...      
> I: module-alsa-source.c: Device suspended...                                                                                    
> I: module-suspend-on-idle.c: Sink alsa_output.pci_1106_3059_sound_card_0_alsa_playback_0 idle for too long, suspending ...      
> I: module-alsa-sink.c: Device suspended...                                                                                      
> I: module-stream-restore.c: Synced.                                                                                             
> D: module-hal-detect.c: dbus: interface=org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Seat, path=/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Seat1, member=SessionAdded                                                                                                                            
> D: module-console-kit.c: dbus: interface=org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Seat, path=/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Seat1, member=SessionAdded                                                                                                                           
> Soft CPU time limit exhausted, terminating.                                                                                     
> E: cpulimit.c: Received request to terminate due to CPU overload.                                                               
> 
> The local end gives:
> D: module-tunnel.c: Stream created.                                                                                                                                                 
> D: module-tunnel.c: Stream created.                                                                                                                                                 
> D: module-tunnel.c: Server reports playback started.                                                                                                                                
> I: module-tunnel.c: Server signalled buffer overrun/underrun.                                                                                                                       
> D: module-tunnel.c: Server reports playback started.                                                                                                                                
> I: module-tunnel.c: Server signalled buffer overrun/underrun.                                                                                                                       
> .. repeatedly ..
> and eventually
> W: module-tunnel.c: Stream died. 
> 
> How can I proceed with further debugging? The problem is getting worse, I have been able to play some audio before, but now I can't even open pavucontrol let alone get as far as moving audio onto the network sink. I'm passing tsched=0 to module_hal_detect on the local end, because I get very choppy playback otherwise (broken sound driver I think).
> 
> (On the other hand, the RTP issue seems to have gone, or at least only seems to happen the first time I move a source to the RTP sink)
> 
> Thanks,
>