Summary: | konsole bell sound blows up memory usage of pipewire-pulse | ||
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Product: | [Applications] konsole | Reporter: | dmattes |
Component: | general | Assignee: | Konsole Developer <konsole-devel> |
Status: | REPORTED --- | ||
Severity: | normal | CC: | auxsvr |
Priority: | NOR | ||
Version: | 22.12.3 | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Platform: | Kubuntu | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
Attachments: | attachment-3882156-0.html |
Description
dmattes
2023-06-02 19:11:15 UTC
Created attachment 159428 [details] attachment-3882156-0.html This is a helpful bug report, thanks. I'll try to simulate here and talk with the pipewire folks. On Fri, Jun 2, 2023 at 9:11 PM <bugzilla_noreply@kde.org> wrote: > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=470563 > > Bug ID: 470563 > Summary: konsole bell sound blows up memory usage of > pipewire-pulse > Classification: Applications > Product: konsole > Version: 22.12.3 > Platform: Kubuntu > OS: Linux > Status: REPORTED > Severity: normal > Priority: NOR > Component: general > Assignee: konsole-devel@kde.org > Reporter: dmattes@gmx.de > Target Milestone: --- > > SUMMARY > > If konsole plays bell sounds in quick succession, the memory usage of the > pipewire-pulse background process grows without limits. The memory usage > does > not go down over time. The pipewire-pulse process has to be restarted to > reclaim the memory. > > STEPS TO REPRODUCE > > 1. Open konsole. > 2. Open the Settings -> Configure Notifications ... dialog. Select "Bell in > focused session" from the list of events. Check "Play a sound" and select > an > existing sound file. Apply. > 3. Press Ctrl+Esc to open the "System Activity" monitor - or any other too > that > is able to show the memory consumption of background processes. > 4. In the console window, press and hold backspace key for a few seconds to > generate a quick succession of bell sounds. > 5. Watch how the memory consumption of pipewire-pulse behaves. > > OBSERVED RESULT > > The memory consumption grows to several hundred megabytes and stays high > afterwards. When releasing the key, the memory consumption goes down a > little > bit but stays high. This behavior may also be caused by other applications > that > play sound. When I play audio using audacious or watching a video in > firefox, > the memory consumption of pipewire-pulse stays very low (a few megabytes). > When > I discovered the problem, pipewire-pulse permanently occupied over 600 MiB. > After a reboot, the memory consumption was on the normal level of a few > megabytes. > > EXPECTED RESULT > > I would expect that the memory consumption grows a bit while playing the > possibly overlapping bell sounds and then > goes down to a few megabytes after the internal buffers have been freed. > > SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS > Linux kernel: 6.2.0-20-generic (64-bit) > KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.5 (backports on Kubuntu 23.04) > KDE Frameworks Version: 5.106.0 > Qt Version: 5.15.8 > pipewire/pipewire-pulse Version: 0.3.65-3 > libpulse0 Version: 1:16.1+dfsg1-2ubuntu3 > > ADDITIONAL INFORMATION > > The bug may be anywhere between konsole and pipewire-pulse. I filed this > bug > under konsole because it can be reproduced in the konsole window and I > couldn't > identify other applications that let the memory consumption grow that much. > > -- > You are receiving this mail because: > You are the assignee for the bug. |