Pulseaudio often eats 100% cpu, sometimes crashes

[LGB [Gábor Lénárt]]

Up-to-date intrepid running on x86 hardware in 32 bit mode, pulseaudio package version is 0.9.10-2ubuntu7. While playing movies with mplayer, the movie often (usually after 5-10 minutes) freezes for 10 seconds or so, then it continues. During that time I discovered that pulseaudio process eats all idle CPU. After some seconds pulseaudio's CPU usage goes lower and movie continues. Sometimes however pulseaudio process completely disappears from process list (crash).

[Luke Yelavich (themuso)]

Could you plesae try the following:

Comment out the following lines in /etc/pulseaudio/daemon.conf
default-fragments = 8
default-fragment-size-msec = 10

If that doesn't help, try and comment out another line in the same file, which is the following:
esample-method = speex-float-1

Please let me knwo whether your CPU usage for pulseaudio changes.

Thanks

 affects ubuntu/pulseaudio
 status incomplete

[LGB [Gábor Lénárt] (lgb)]

Commenting our you've mentioned did not help :( And also, now the sound even "stammer" in little chunks and the problems I've described are still here (no crash yet though, but the other).