pulseaudio has constant 8-15% cpu usage when my pc's idle and not playing anything

[Amr Hassan]

Binary package hint: pulseaudio

This is a new thing in jaunty. I'm only running the padevchooser applet, and my computer's idle and not playing anything nor any other computer on the network is streaming anything to it and my pulseaudio daemon has a constant cpu usage of 8-15%.

I'm running jaunty rc on a dell inspiron 1525.

UPDATE: I think I know what's causing that for me, It's the network-access features. Enabling either "Enable network access from local sound devices" or "Make discoverable network sound devices available locally" from pa's preferences.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

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On Sun, 19 Apr 2009, Amr Hassan wrote:

> This is a new thing in jaunty. I'm only running the padevchooser applet,
> and my computer's idle and not playing anything nor any other computer
> on the network is streaming anything to it and my pulseaudio daemon has
> a constant cpu usage of 8-15%.

Is this symptom reproducible without padevchooser running? Which kernel
are you using?
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[Amr Hassan (amr-hassan)]

Quitting padevchooser doesn't make any noticable difference. I've also noticed that it starts after a hibernate/suspend.
It may also be related to the fact that mail-notification and pidgin's notification sounds are really scratchy.

[Daniele Dellafiore (ildella)]

similar problem here. after some computer usage I had two processes using about 5% cpu constantly: pulseaudio and python.
Do not know what python was, so I execute a "killall python": many AWN icons on the dock bar disappeared and the pulseaudio process as well.
I do not keep the padevchooser in the systray.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.
Ubuntu 9.04 (jaunty) reached end-of-life on October 23, 2010.

See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

Please upgrade to the latest version and re-test.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for pulseaudio (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]