[Touch-packages] [Bug 1834794] Re: Uses too much memory (6Gbyte process)

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[Touch-packages] [Bug 1834794] Re: Uses too much memory (6Gbyte process)

Thanks for that. I've never seen pulseaudio do this before. 1. Do you have any ideas as to what apps might have been using pulseaudio recently? 2. Is the problem regular? Does it return after a reboot? 3. Does the same problem exist in Ubuntu 19.04 if you boot that from USB? (http://releases.ubu

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1834794] Re: Uses too much memory (6Gbyte process)

Thanks for the reply. It is 3.7G byte mapped hardware memory, not just virtual. Here's the output you asked: $ cat status Name: pulseaudio Umask: 0022 State: S (sleeping) Tgid: 25499 Ngid: 0 Pid:25499 PPid: 1 TracerPid: 0 Uid:1000100010001000 Gid:1000100

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1834794] Re: Uses too much memory (6Gbyte process)

Thanks for the bug report. 'pmap' displays virtual memory (address space), which is mostly not real memory. Please attach a copy of your /proc/PID/status file. The important field that affects machine performance is VmRSS, and VmData tells you the amount of regular memory allocations. ** Change

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1834794] Re: Uses too much memory (6Gbyte process)

Running with 'pmap -x' gives this info: $ pmap -x 25499 25499: /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog Address Kbytes RSS Dirty Mode Mapping 55e3bb805000 84 84 0 r-x-- pulseaudio 55e3bb805000 0 0 0 r-x-- pulseaudio 55e3bba1a0