Frequent crashes of PulseAudio

Lennart Poettering mzerqung at 0pointer.de
Mon Apr 7 20:39:37 UTC 2008


On Mon, 07.04.08 14:38, Dimi Paun (dimi at lattica.com) wrote:

> On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 20:33 +0200, Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek wrote:
> > I can't normally play videos or listen to music, because PA may crash.
> 
> Welcome to the club:
>     https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=438594

Hmm, AFAICS this is totally unrelated.

If you get a CPU time limit abort than this can have two reasons:

1) You got an awfully slow CPU (very unlikely, if you bought your
machine in the last 10 years and is x86 or x86-64)

2) Something causes PA to enter an endless loop which causes it to eat
100% CPU.

In all the cases I managed to track down #2 is caused by a faulty ALSA
driver where poll() signalled readiness while there actually was
nothing to do. This happened with drivers which required the "multi"
libasound module, such as emu10k.

Lennart

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