Package: pulseaudio Version: 0.9.21-3 Severity: normal
I was wondering why my kernel caches were so large even after running echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches, and a friend mentioned that SHM is counted in that total. So I had a look in /dev/shm and this is what I found: -r-------- 1 trs80 trs80 65M Nov 27 11:19 /dev/shm/pulse-shm-1016564959 -r-------- 1 trs80 trs80 65M Nov 22 08:24 /dev/shm/pulse-shm-1034082074 -r-------- 1 trs80 trs80 65M Nov 27 11:54 /dev/shm/pulse-shm-1608618112 -r-------- 1 trs80 trs80 65M Nov 27 11:27 /dev/shm/pulse-shm-3319920865 -r-------- 1 trs80 trs80 65M Nov 21 20:00 /dev/shm/pulse-shm-3461827842 -r-------- 1 trs80 trs80 65M Nov 27 11:27 /dev/shm/pulse-shm-3641898353 -r-------- 1 trs80 trs80 65M Nov 27 11:58 /dev/shm/pulse-shm-378896967 -r-------- 1 trs80 trs80 65M Nov 27 11:02 /dev/shm/pulse-shm-657497894 -r-------- 1 trs80 trs80 65M Nov 27 09:27 /dev/shm/pulse-shm-996492698 lsof shows they belong to various processes: COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME update-no 3259 trs80 mem REG 0,16 67108904 4695743 /dev/shm/pulse-shm-1034082074 pulseaudi 3282 trs80 mem REG 0,16 67108904 9853 /dev/shm/pulse-shm-378896967 gnome-ter 3465 trs80 mem REG 0,16 67108904 10173280 /dev/shm/pulse-shm-1016564959 nautilus 3746 trs80 mem REG 0,16 67108904 10183885 /dev/shm/pulse-shm-3319920865 gnome-pan 3763 trs80 mem REG 0,16 67108904 10184516 /dev/shm/pulse-shm-3641898353 xchat-gno 4314 trs80 mem REG 0,16 67108904 21258 /dev/shm/pulse-shm-657497894 iceape-bi 10447 trs80 mem REG 0,16 67108904 3991151 /dev/shm/pulse-shm-3461827842 empathy 30845 trs80 mem REG 0,16 67108904 3741097 /dev/shm/pulse-shm-996492698 free -m: total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 1248 1197 51 0 9 570 -/+ buffers/cache: 616 632 Swap: 956 226 730 -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-tuxonice.3.2-rc1 Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages pulseaudio depends on: ii adduser 3.112 add and remove users and groups ii consolekit 0.4.1-4 framework for defining and trackin ii libasound2 1.0.23-2.1 shared library for ALSA applicatio ii libc6 2.11.2-7 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libcap2 1:2.19-3 support for getting/setting POSIX. ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.24-3 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libgdbm3 1.8.3-9 GNU dbm database routines (runtime ii libice6 2:1.0.6-2 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libltdl7 2.2.6b-2 A system independent dlopen wrappe ii libpulse0 0.9.21-3 PulseAudio client libraries ii libsamplerate0 0.1.7-3 Audio sample rate conversion libra ii libsm6 2:1.1.1-1 X11 Session Management library ii libsndfile1 1.0.21-3 Library for reading/writing audio ii libspeexdsp1 1.2~rc1-1 The Speex extended runtime library ii libudev0 164-2 libudev shared library ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-3 X11 client-side library ii libxtst6 2:1.1.0-3 X11 Testing -- Record extension li ii lsb-base 3.2-23.1 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii udev 164-2 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo Versions of packages pulseaudio recommends: ii gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio 0.10.24-1 GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio pn libasound2-plugins <none> (no description available) ii pulseaudio-esound-compat 0.9.21-3 PulseAudio ESD compatibility layer ii pulseaudio-module-x11 0.9.21-3 X11 module for PulseAudio sound se Versions of packages pulseaudio suggests: ii paman 0.9.4-1 PulseAudio Manager ii paprefs 0.9.9-2 PulseAudio Preferences ii pavucontrol 0.9.9-1 PulseAudio Volume Control ii pavumeter 0.9.3-1 PulseAudio Volume Meter ii pulseaudio-utils 0.9.21-3 Command line tools for the PulseAu -- no debconf information _______________________________________________ pkg-pulseaudio-devel mailing list pkg-pulseaudio-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-pulseaudio-devel