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pulseaudio package

  1. Bug #424655
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David Addley (addley-david) wrote : Pulse audio memory leak

Binary package hint: pulseaudio

Pulse audio routinely uses 2GB+ over the course of a few hours.

Description: Ubuntu karmic (development branch)
Release: 9.10

pulseaudio:
  Installed: 1:0.9.16~test6-3-g57e1-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 1:0.9.16~test6-3-g57e1-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 1:0.9.16~test6-3-g57e1-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://mirror.optus.net karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

I expect pulseaudio to continue to use a couple MB of memory, certainly less then 2GB.

After a few hours of listening to music and the odd youtube video pulseaudio ends up with 2GB+ of memory.