Bug 57522

Summary:	pavucontrol causing heavy Xorg load when running for a long time
Product:	PulseAudio	Reporter:	Raphael Michel <raphael+freedesktop>
Component:	pavucontrol	Assignee:	pulseaudio-bugs
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:	pulseaudio-bugs
Severity:	major
Priority:	medium	CC:	lennart
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86-64 (AMD64)
OS:	Linux (All)
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Description Raphael Michel 2012-11-25 16:41:13 UTC

I normally have pavucontrol running in background all the time. At least since pavucontrol 1.0 (as shipped with Ubuntu 12.10, but maybe for longer) the process /usr/bin/X starts consuming 98% CPU when pavucontrol is running for some time. I observe this value going down to normal levels as soon as I kill pavucontrol. I'm pretty sure this should not happen. Is it possible that it is a bug in pavucontrol and if yes, what information can I provide to help debugging?

Comment 1 Tanu Kaskinen 2012-11-26 14:05:04 UTC

It's possible that pavucontrol does something that it shouldn't do.

How long do you have to wait until the problem happens? Does pavucontrol CPU use go up too?

Does the X CPU use go up after some specific event? If you don't know, are you able to make a small program/script that monitors the X CPU consumption and alerts you immediately when it starts to look unhealthy?

Comment 2 GitLab Migration User 2018-07-30 09:31:03 UTC

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