Pulseaudio hogs bandwidth

[Endolith]

I tried to set up my home server to act as a music server (and sometimes it actually works).

However, when I reboot the machine, both machines start sucking up all available bandwidth, even with no audio playing.

[Eric Hedekar (stochastic)]

More information is needed for anyone to diagnose/fix this bug.

Please explain how you've setup your home server. Also if you could post the appropriate logs of activity on your network, that would be helpful.

[Endolith (endolith)]

It's described in the attached question

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+question/61859

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1083077

[Endolith (endolith)]

Once the server is running (because I've logged into the other computer over NX), the bandwidth of both computers jumps up, even with no audio playing. /usr/bin/pulseaudio is using 180 KB/sec.

[Endolith (endolith)]

This happens if "Enable network access to local sound devices" is enabled on the desktop and "Make discoverable network sound devices available locally" is enabled on the laptop. If I disable either one of these, the bandwidth hogging goes away.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.