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See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases We appreciate that this bug may be old and you might not be interested in discussing it any more. But if you are then please upgrade to the latest Ubuntu version and re-test. ** Changed in: pulseaudio (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to pulseaudio in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/728901 Title: pulseaudio gradually using more memory, maybe leaking Status in pulseaudio package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Binary package hint: pulseaudio I have been running pavucontrol for quite some time and I notice that pulseaudio has slowly been hoarding memory, now being almost on a par with Firefox. I find that absurd for a daemon process. Here is the top output of the top command, sorted on "%MEM": PID VIRT RES SHR %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 30555 1248m 557m 20m 3 14.1 23:17.98 firefox-bin 1835 823m 515m 58m 2 13.0 201:33.44 pulseaudio ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10 Package: pulseaudio 1:0.9.22~0.9.21+stable-queue-32-g8478-0ubuntu21.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-24.42-generic 2.6.35.8 Uname: Linux 2.6.35-24-generic x86_64 AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.23. Architecture: amd64 ArecordDevices: **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices **** card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC262 Analog [ALC262 Analog] Subdevices: 0/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 AudioDevicesInUse: USER PID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/controlC0: pang 1835 F.... pulseaudio /dev/snd/pcmC0D0c: pang 1835 F...m pulseaudio /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p: pang 1835 F...m pulseaudio Card0.Amixer.info: Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xc0000000 irq 46' Mixer name : 'Realtek ALC262' Components : 'HDA:10ec0262,18540120,00100002' Controls : 19 Simple ctrls : 12 Date: Fri Mar 4 08:34:35 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429) SourcePackage: pulseaudio dmi.bios.date: 06/30/2008 dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies LTD dmi.bios.version: ELGNSF18 dmi.board.name: ELGON dmi.board.vendor: LG Electronics dmi.board.version: Not Applicable dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag dmi.chassis.type: 10 dmi.chassis.vendor: LG Electronics dmi.chassis.version: N/A dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologiesLTD:bvrELGNSF18:bd06/30/2008:svnLGElectronics:pnP300-T.APE4V:pvrNotApplicable:rvnLGElectronics:rnELGON:rvrNotApplicable:cvnLGElectronics:ct10:cvrN/A: dmi.product.name: P300-T.APE4V dmi.product.version: Not Applicable dmi.sys.vendor: LG Electronics To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/728901/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
