[mythtv-users] Pulseaudio max's out CPU usage

[Jean-Yves Avenard]

Hi

On 31 October 2010 04:47, DaveD <mythtv at guiplot.com> wrote:
> NEW INFO:  While I was writing this, I had mythfrontend running and playing
> back a show.  All was fine until I received a new email.  Apparently
> pulseaudio overloads when the email client (T-bird) sends a "you have new
> mail" sound while myth is playing.  I stopped the mythtv playback and
> pulseaudio went back to normal.  Again, it looks like pulseaudio goes crazy
> if it gets a sound request while mythfrontend has it suspended.  Any
> pulseaudio experts know how to fix this?  (besides not having my email
> client open during playback, which I'll do for now.)  How does mythtv
> "suspend" pulseaudio?  Does it kill it and restart it later?  If so, maybe
> fedora has a respawn thing going on that I can disable.

Pulse audio is suspended by sending a suspend command to the pulse
server. ; it isn't killed as such.

Something else is going on outside myth ; and something not properly
handling that pulse is in suspended state