I am seeing the same problem with 8.10
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
21084 bkc 20 0 2995m 64m 23m S 0 0.8 0:29.14 gaim
in my case, there isn't any process with 'pulse' in it, and audacious
fails to run w/ pulse output (but works with alsa)
I just upgraded from 7.04 to 8.10 over the weekend, so still working out
the bugs..
Now I have killed and restarted it (as pidgin). Here's something
interesting.
go to preferences, sounds. Change 'method' to "ALSA" and then click the
preview button a bunch of times, watch top report.. memory usage doesn't
change too much.
Now change "method" to "automatic". Every time I click preview, top
shows a 10megabyte increase in VIRT for pidgin.
change method back to "alsa" and click preview a few more times, memory
does not increase.
meanwhile pulse doesn't seem to be running (I guess). syslog shows
this:
ec 2 22:51:12 fire pulseaudio[19617]: ltdl-bind-now.c: Failed to find original
dlopen loader.
Dec 2 22:51:12 fire pulseaudio[19617]: pid.c: Stale PID file, overwriting.
Dec 2 22:51:12 fire pulseaudio[19617]: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_NICE, (31,
31)) failed: Operation not permitted
Dec 2 22:51:12 fire pulseaudio[19617]: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_RTPRIO, (9,
9)) failed: Operation not permitted
tried /etc/init.d/pulseaudio start, that failed, but after reading the notes,
as the logged in user I tried:
fire:/vmware/Phoenix> pulseaudio --daemonize
W: ltdl-bind-now.c: Failed to find original dlopen loader.
anyway, for pidgin I'll stick to alsa for now.
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Extreme memory leak in Pidgin when attempting to play sound
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/200392
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