pulseaudio is using way too much memory (2.5GB!)
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pulseaudio (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: pulseaudio
I'm not sure why, but pulseaudio seems to insist on using a ton of memory, on the order of 2.5 GB. (I have 4GB of physical RAM.) It starts off using little, but gradually takes more and more, even if music isn't playing. I just noticed this behaviour in the past few days, so it might have something to do with a recent Ubuntu upgrade.
Killing the pulseaudio process just restarts the cycle, and the problem persists after a restart.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse:
USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/
/dev/snd/pcmC0D0p: ryan 20426 F...m pulseaudio
Card0.Amixer.info:
Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xf0700000 irq 22'
Mixer name : 'Intel G45 DEVCTG'
Components : 'HDA:10ec0888,
Controls : 31
Simple ctrls : 16
Date: Fri Nov 13 01:11:43 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pulseaudio
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
Package: pulseaudio 1:0.9.19-0ubuntu4
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: pulseaudio
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-15-generic x86_64
Hm, the ProcMaps.txt that was included with the bug is a bit different from the output I get from pmap. Here's what it shows: