cpulimit.c: Received request to terminate due to CPU overload.

[Greg Grossmeier]

Binary package hint: pulseaudio

Opening bug about this cpulimit pulseaudio bug as I am experiencing it with latest Jaunty (and crimsun's PPA enabled).

My steps to reproduce:
1) open gmusicbrower (audio player)
2) play mp3/ogg
3) switch between desktops (with compiz "Normal" settings)
4) pulse crackles then stops all sound right when I switch desktops (takes about a minute or more after starting a song until it does this)

I can then restart gmusicbrowser and it will work again.

Exact same steps to reproduce if viewing a flash video in Fx or mpg move in Totem.

alsa-info.sh output:
http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=aa7e83be8191618d19c06328424019ee9979c0e0

[Greg Grossmeier (greg.grossmeier)]

attached last lines from /var/log/syslog

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Please try changing /etc/pulse/daemon.conf from
; disable-remixing = no
to
disable-remixing = yes

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

(see also bug 226342)

[Greg Grossmeier (greg.grossmeier)]

Changed that line but it still failed. This time with a bit of crackling before losing sound entirely.

From the syslog:

Mar 17 01:30:59 alexandria pulseaudio[12466]: main.c: Called SUID root and real-time and/or high-priority scheduling was requested in the configuration. However, we lack the necessary privileges:
Mar 17 01:30:59 alexandria pulseaudio[12466]: main.c: We are not in group 'pulse-rt', PolicyKit refuse to grant us the requested privileges and we have no increase RLIMIT_NICE/RLIMIT_RTPRIO resource limits.
Mar 17 01:30:59 alexandria pulseaudio[12466]: main.c: For enabling real-time/high-priority scheduling please acquire the appropriate PolicyKit privileges, or become a member of 'pulse-rt', or increase the RLIMIT_NICE/RLIMIT_RTPRIO resource limits for this user.
Mar 17 01:33:58 alexandria pulseaudio[12469]: cpulimit.c: Received request to terminate due to CPU overload.
Mar 17 01:33:58 alexandria kernel: [55697.727241] pulseaudio[12469]: segfault at 7f9ee4355fa0 ip 00007f9ee4355fa0 sp 00007ffff5003688 error 14 in module-null-sink.so[7f9ee4b7c000+3000

[Greg Grossmeier (greg.grossmeier)]

Note:

Changing that line has caused Banshee to be unable to play Internet Radio stations. It can still play last.fm music though. (gmusicbrowser, which is just local files, is able to play audio fine, and Fx is able to play audio via flash just fine).

Re-commenting out that line enables Banshee to play Internet Radio stations.

[Spider (spider-alternating)]

the CPU overload still happens here:

grep CPU /var/log/user.log
Mar 20 09:11:32 Waves pulseaudio[4586]: cpulimit.c: Received request to terminate due to CPU overload.
Mar 20 09:11:43 Waves pulseaudio[6137]: cpulimit.c: Received request to terminate due to CPU overload.
Mar 20 09:12:25 Waves pulseaudio[6232]: cpulimit.c: Received request to terminate due to CPU overload.
Mar 20 09:56:51 Waves pulseaudio[6244]: cpulimit.c: Received request to terminate due to CPU overload.

That was after all updates

pulseaudio:
  Installed: 0.9.14-0ubuntu14
  Candidate: 0.9.14-0ubuntu14
  Version table:
 *** 0.9.14-0ubuntu14 0
        500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

uname -a
Linux Waves 2.6.28-11-generic #35-Ubuntu SMP Wed Mar 18 21:55:34 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Spider <email address hidden> wrote:
> the CPU overload still happens here:
>
> grep CPU /var/log/user.log
> Mar 20 09:11:32 Waves pulseaudio[4586]: cpulimit.c: Received request to terminate due to CPU overload.

Please see https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2009-March/007501.html

[Spider (spider-alternating)]

> Please see https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2009-March/007501.html
Installed it and will do further testing with it.

[Javier Smaldone (javier.smaldone)]

Tried with 2.6.28-11-generic #38~lp330814crimsun2 SMP Wed Mar 25 20:09:32 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I played mp3s with mplayer for about 20 minutes (far more than before), but pulseaudio crashes with the following message:

  Mar 26 03:48:18 butterfly pulseaudio[3810]: module-console-kit.c: GetUnixUser() call failed: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: Method "GetUnixUser" with signature "" on interface "org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Session" doesn't exist
  Mar 26 03:48:20 butterfly last message repeated 2 times
  Mar 26 03:48:40 butterfly pulseaudio[3810]: cpulimit.c: Received request to terminate due to CPU overload

lspci:

  04:01.0 Audio device: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT1708/A [Azalia HDAC] (VIA High Definition Audio Controller) (rev 10)

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

released in jaunty's -11.38

[MFeif (matt-feifarek)]

I still have this problem on an up-to-date Jaunty.

Not sure what "jaunty's -11.38" means... but I THINK it means kernel. My kernel rev is 2.6.28-11.42 (386).

"cpulimit.c: Received request to terminate due to CPU overload." is the exact error.

Some other notables:
Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)

I'm streaming audio to this computer via another system running mpd, using the standard gnome-installed controls to advertise the audio sinks via avahi. No custom settings in /etc/pulse.

I don't see any cpu spikes around the problem, and I'm not doing ANYTHING else with the box. It's running the desktop, but no applications (save applets) are running. No significant background tasks are running either (but a sshd that's letting me run 'top').

When running top, pulseaudio seems to eat 6-9% of the cpu when playing music.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

This should be fixed in 0.9.15.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

For those of you experiencing this symptom with updated (from jaunty-proposed) linux and pulseaudio, please try changing /etc/pulse/daemon.conf to use:

resample-method = trivial

then, killall pulseaudio. Simply invoking "speaker-test -c2" afterward will trigger an autospawn.

[Andrew Sayers (andrew-bugs-launchpad-net)]

(Reporting on behalf of my brother, a new Ubuntu user)

We're experiencing what may or may not be the same bug. Most programs run fine (e.g. audacious plays sound), but pavucontrol causes pulseaudio to quickly die with a CPU limit error.

We're using the -proposed version of pulseaudio, with resample-method = trivial. We've also set default-sample-channels = 8 to get all the speakers working, if that's relevant.

alsa-info.sh is here: http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=2d36098489a51f5fe93c610dafdb42d0d4c3fe08

Attached is the output of running pulseaudio in a terminal, then starting pavucontrol.

[emmeda (emmeda)]

Pulseaudio needs a complete core, when I play an .ogg-file in Rythmbox and gets killed 4-10 seconds later:

grep CPU /var/log/user.log
May 9 13:10:01 itchy pulseaudio[3390]: cpulimit.c: Received request to terminate due to CPU overload.

I put a lot of hopefully helpfull output in the attachment file "debugoutput.txt". Here is the order of all commands, which output is in the attachment:
$ pulseaudio --version
$ cat /etc/pulse/daemon.conf
$ lsb_release -d
$ uname -a
$ lspci | grep -i audio
$ lsmod | grep "snd"
$ cat /proc/asound/cards
$ head -n 3 /proc/asound/card0/codec#0
$ head -n 3 /proc/asound/card0/codec97#0/ac97#0-0
$ head -n 3 /proc/asound/card0/codec97#0/ac97#0-0+regs
$ aplay -l
$ aplay /usr/share/sounds/question.wav
$ asoundconf list
$ cat ~/.asoundrc
$ ps -C esd
$ ps -C arts
$ ps -C pulseaudio

I just thought, that it is better to post too much, than too less. So I postet all recommended output from this page:
http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Soundprobleme/Audio-Fehler-Beschreibung .. and a bit more.

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@Daniel T Chen:
That worked, had no further problems with pulse. Thanks.

[urho (vonturha)]

tried resample-method = trivial, no help at least when using spotify with wine 1.0.1

[Jeremy Nickurak (nickurak)]

Getting this running rhythmbox or ogg123 in jaunty, pulseaudio 1:0.9.14-0ubuntu20.2

[Jeremy Nickurak (nickurak)]

No change with resample-method = trivial

[sterios prosiniklis (steriosprosiniklis)]

For those of you experiencing this symptom with updated (from jaunty-proposed) linux and pulseaudio, please try changing /etc/pulse/daemon.conf to use:

resample-method = trivial

then, killall pulseaudio. Simply invoking "speaker-test -c2" afterward will trigger an autospawn.

The problem persists with resample-method = trivial

[tonyhartfield (anthony-hartfield)]

no-cpu-limit = yes

fixed the problem for me, resample-method = trivial didn't work

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Please note that in Karmic the cpu-limit is disabled by default.

On Oct 22, 2009 11:51 AM, "tonyhartfield" <email address hidden>
wrote:

no-cpu-limit = yes

fixed the problem for me, resample-method = trivial didn't work

-- cpulimit.c: Received request to terminate due to CPU overload.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/...

Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “pulseaudio”
package in Ubuntu: Triaged ...

Binary package hint: pulseaudio Opening bug about this cpulimit pulseaudio
bug as I am experiencing...

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package pulseaudio - 1:0.9.22~0.9.21+341-g62bf-0ubuntu1

---------------
pulseaudio (1:0.9.22~0.9.21+341-g62bf-0ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low

  * New snapshot based on stable-queue git branch (testing requested
    specifically by upstream)
    - LP: #164745, #173212, #201391, #204536, #207796, #210016, #221038,
    - LP: #226342, #230408, #236423, #237443, #250059, #269585, #274304,
    - LP: #274577, #275474, #277532, #277566, #277932, #278025, #280534,
    - LP: #283049, #286816, #287036, #292732, #298011, #298301, #300290,
    - LP: #302038, #311497, #311853, #324062, #339448, #344057, #348979,
    - LP: #350829, #356206, #367379, #367544, #369822, #371897, #374846,
    - LP: #375570, #381801, #399515, #402950, #403786, #408169, #409322,
    - LP: #409723, #410326, #410446, #417695, #417976, #419271, #421072,
    - LP: #422774, #423979, #424655, #425028, #427016, #431072, #432660,
    - LP: #437640, #437996, #442191, #443306, #443389, #446719, #449762,
    - LP: #455417, #461532, #464652, #483191, #497537, #503780
  * debian/patches/:
    + add: 0099-change-configure-git-version-tag.patch: Match released
           upstream 0.9.21 for shlibs and LIBPULSE_VERSION_INFO
    - drop: 0004-set-tsched0.patch (no longer relevant)
            0050-revert-pacmd-poll-argv.patch (no longer relevant)
            0056-dont-bail-on-sound-class-modem.patch (merged)
            0056-ignore-sound-class-modem.patch (merged)
            0058-Backport-4c793.patch (merged)
            0059-Backport-978d3.patch (merged)
            0060-fix-implicit-func-decl-cpu-arm.patch (merged)
            0061-Backport-c5fdb.patch (merged)
            0070-dont-bail-on-sound-class-modem-devs.patch (merged)
    + refresh: 0001-change-resample-and-buffering.patch
               0090-disable-flat-volumes.patch
               0091-dont-load-cork-music-on-phone.patch
               0057-load-module-x11-bell.patch
 -- Daniel T Chen <email address hidden> Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:33:05 -0500