Bug 81288 - High cpu useage when running Skype
Summary: High cpu useage when running Skype
Status: RESOLVED MOVED
Alias: None
Product: PulseAudio
Classification: Unclassified
Component: core (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: x86 (IA32) Linux (All)
: medium normal
Assignee: pulseaudio-bugs
QA Contact: pulseaudio-bugs
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Reported: 2014-07-13 10:57 UTC by Clemens Eisserer
Modified: 2018-07-30 10:00 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Attachments
sysprof screenshot of system-wide profile run (160.03 KB, text/plain)
2014-07-13 10:57 UTC, Clemens Eisserer
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screenshot of system-wide sysprof profile run (160.03 KB, image/png)
2014-07-13 10:59 UTC, Clemens Eisserer
Details

Description Clemens Eisserer 2014-07-13 10:57:51 UTC
Created attachment 102690 [details]
sysprof screenshot of system-wide profile run

Running skype on my mother's old Pentium-4 based laptop, I noticed pulseaudio consumes a fairly high share of CPU ressources.

As can be seen in the attached sysprof-screenshot, pulseaudio consumes almost half the cycles skype does. However this was a video-call - so skype was not only de- and encoding audio, but also video. Furthermore, pulseaudio consumed almost 3 times the CPU cycles of Xorg required to push the video pixels to the display.

System:
- Pentium 4, 2.6ghz
- Fedora 20 + latest updates
- pulseaudio-4.0-13.gitf81e3.fc20.i686

I've seen similar behaviour on my modern (sandy bridge core-i7) x86_64 laptop, where pulseaudio consumes as much CPU cycles just playing sound as mplayer needs to decode and display/output video and audio.
Comment 1 Clemens Eisserer 2014-07-13 10:59:09 UTC
Created attachment 102691 [details]
screenshot of system-wide sysprof profile run
Comment 2 GitLab Migration User 2018-07-30 10:00:57 UTC
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