Comment 15 for bug 200392

I am seeing the same problem with 8.10

 PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
21084 bkc 20 0 2995m 64m 23m S 0 0.8 0:29.14 gaim

in my case, there isn't any process with 'pulse' in it, and audacious fails to run w/ pulse output (but works with alsa)

I just upgraded from 7.04 to 8.10 over the weekend, so still working out the bugs..

Now I have killed and restarted it (as pidgin). Here's something interesting.

go to preferences, sounds. Change 'method' to "ALSA" and then click the preview button a bunch of times, watch top report.. memory usage doesn't change too much.

Now change "method" to "automatic". Every time I click preview, top shows a 10megabyte increase in VIRT for pidgin.

change method back to "alsa" and click preview a few more times, memory does not increase.

meanwhile pulse doesn't seem to be running (I guess). syslog shows this:

ec 2 22:51:12 fire pulseaudio[19617]: ltdl-bind-now.c: Failed to find original dlopen loader.
Dec 2 22:51:12 fire pulseaudio[19617]: pid.c: Stale PID file, overwriting.
Dec 2 22:51:12 fire pulseaudio[19617]: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_NICE, (31, 31)) failed: Operation not permitted
Dec 2 22:51:12 fire pulseaudio[19617]: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_RTPRIO, (9, 9)) failed: Operation not permitted

tried /etc/init.d/pulseaudio start, that failed, but after reading the notes, as the logged in user I tried:

fire:/vmware/Phoenix> pulseaudio --daemonize
W: ltdl-bind-now.c: Failed to find original dlopen loader.

anyway, for pidgin I'll stick to alsa for now.