[pulseaudio-discuss] Pulseaudio randomly resets

[Helmar Schütz]

On Fr 29 Mär 2013 08:54:16 CET, Tanu Kaskinen wrote:
> I wouldn't mind having a glance at a log with maximum verbosity, with
> realtime-scheduling enabled.

http://mayoneso.de/pulseaudio/log_pa_rt_enabled.tar.gz

> Getting killed due to excessive CPU use suggests that PulseAudio enters a
> busy-loop. Another possibility is that PulseAudio does some heavy processing,
> but that shouldn't be the case with the default configuration. Have you loaded
> some filter modules in PulseAudio?

No, PulseAudio runs with the default configuration.

> If you disable realtime-scheduling, does pulseaudio consume a lot of CPU time?

It uses about 2-6 % CPU load and ~1184 seconds CPU time.

> I guess you don't have rtkit installed. rtkit should be able to dynamically
> remove the realtime scheduling from PulseAudio in case PulseAudio doesn't
> behave nicely, before PulseAudio gets killed. Of course, if there's a busy-
> loop involved, there would still be excessive CPU load...

rtkit is installed.