On 11/08/2010 07:57 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > On Mon, 8 Nov 2010 21:35:19 -0600 JD<jd1008@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hello Ranjan, >> I wrote about the pulseaudio taking 40% of cpu when nothing was playing. >> The cause of this constant looping is a bug in the Adobe flash plugin. >> Pulseaudio daemon listens on a socket FD for incoming audio. >> Each client (such as the adobe flash plugin) is supposed to close >> the socket after the media finishes playing. Well, the adobe flash plugin >> does not close the socket, causing pulseaudio to be in a tight loop, >> polling the socket and finding nothing to process. >> >> In contradistinction to the Adobe plugin, run >> /usr/bin/ffplay -autoexit somefile.mp3 (or any media file). >> While the file is being played, you will notice pulseaudio >> take a lot of the CPU. Once ffplay exits and closes the audio >> socket, pulseaudio will consume a very negligible amount >> of cpu, approaching 0%. > Interesting, but I do not have flash plugin installed. > > Ranjan So, you do not watch any videos via the browser? Because if you do, then you have to have some kind of flash plugin. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
