[pulseaudio-discuss] Pulse audio and NFS home directories.

[Lennart Poettering]

On Fri, 08.05.09 11:46, mike _ (arizonagroovejet at gmail.com) wrote:

> -rw------- 1 xxxxx xx 3.1M 2009-05-08 08:52
> 7c163669fa3688bf66ba6ccd49ef3bce:device-volumes.i686-suse-linux-gnu.gdbm
> -rw------- 1 xxxxx xx 3.0M 2009-05-08 08:52
> 7c163669fa3688bf66ba6ccd49ef3bce:stream-volumes.i686-suse-linux-gnu.gdbm

> Is anyone able to offer an explanation and/or solution for why the
> file sizes are so large on NFS, and/or why pulseaudio chocks when
> ~/.pulse is a symbolic link?

PA uses those to gdbm files to save/restore information like
volume/mute/device for all streams and devices. Is it possible that
simply because your NFS home directories are used across more machines
mroe data ends up being stored in those gdbm files?

To check how much and which data is actually stored in those files try
something like this:

python <<EOF
import gdbm
f = gdbm.open("7c163669fa3688bf66ba6ccd49ef3bce:device-volumes.i686-suse-linux-gnu.gdbm", "r")
k = f.firstkey()
while k != None:
    k = f.nextkey(k)
    print k
EOF

Lennart

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