pulseaudio is running at 100%. no audio is being played. if i do play audio it plays fine and the 100% usage continues. is this one of those "issues" it has with "system mode"?
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pulseaudio is running at 100%. no audio is being played. if i do play audio it plays fine and the 100% usage continues. is this one of those "issues" it has with "system mode"?
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Someday, pulse audio will be stable. They've only had 10 yrs. It is much better now than it was 5 yrs ago, but still far from perfect.
Kill the pulseaudio process. It should automatically restart. If it doesn't, then manually restart it. These processes are owned by your userid.
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in system mode there is a single central process owned by user pulse and that is the one that is running at 100% which is why i'm wondering about system mode. when i play audio, this process, when it is not doing the 100% thing, jumps to about 8%. no other processes run. the individual userid process don't get started even for playing audio.
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at this moment nothing is playing any audio at all. only one process is running pulseaufio. it is owned by user name pulse. it is using 18.8% of CPU. i have no ideas what it is doing.
edit:
i started playing a 16 minute audio file and CPU usage went up to 19.1%
Last edited by Skaperen; August 15th, 2020 at 06:50 AM.
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is it mining bitcoin?
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https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Sof...ithSystemWide/
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Try that. Please give the output of step 3
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i have read that before. i do know it says increased CPU usage. that makes sense as there is more to do to transfer audio to the central process in a secure way.Originally Posted by mc4man
there is no other way to keep the music playing as i switch to other userids (typically about 18 userids logged in and typically about 6 in busy use).
what my initial post is asking about is why does it sometimes use so much CPU to do nothing (no audio is playing).
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audio works fine all the time. these steps are assuming one is not using system mode and will end system mode in step 1 making all further steps unable to diagnose any issue with system mode. since a reboot is part of the steps i cannot do that for a few hours due to things i have running that don't have an ability to resume. not that i would do them.
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