[Pkg-pulseaudio-devel] Bug#551862: hogs memory

[Soeren Sonnenburg]

Package: pulseaudio
Version: 0.9.19-1
Severity: important

on my system puleaudio is the #1 in eating memory, yes outnumbering
evolution...

  virt: 392m res: 184m 1548 S    0  5.0   0:07.15 pulseaudio                                                                                                                                   
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (700, 'stable'), (650, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-rc3-sonne (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages pulseaudio depends on:
ii  adduser                     3.111        add and remove users and groups
ii  consolekit                  0.3.1-1      framework for defining and trackin
ii  libasound2                  1.0.21a-1    shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii  libasyncns0                 0.3-1        Asyncronous name service query lib
ii  libc6                       2.10.1-1     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcap2                     1:2.17-2     support for getting/setting POSIX.
ii  libdbus-1-3                 1.2.16-2     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libflac8                    1.2.1-2+b1   Free Lossless Audio Codec - runtim
ii  libgdbm3                    1.8.3-6      GNU dbm database routines (runtime
ii  libice6                     2:1.0.5-1    X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libltdl7                    2.2.6a-4     A system independent dlopen wrappe
ii  libogg0                     1.1.4~dfsg-1 Ogg bitstream library
ii  libpulse0                   0.9.19-1     PulseAudio client libraries
ii  libsamplerate0              0.1.7-3      Audio sample rate conversion libra
ii  libsm6                      2:1.1.1-1    X11 Session Management library
ii  libsndfile1                 1.0.20-3     Library for reading/writing audio 
ii  libspeexdsp1                1.2~rc1-1    The Speex extended runtime library
ii  libudev0                    146-5        libudev shared library
ii  libvorbis0a                 1.2.3-3      The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libvorbisenc2               1.2.3-3      The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libwrap0                    7.6.q-18     Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  libx11-6                    2:1.2.2-1    X11 client-side library
ii  libxtst6                    2:1.0.3-1    X11 Testing -- Resource extension 
ii  lsb-base                    3.2-23       Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  udev                        146-5        /dev/ and hotplug management daemo

Versions of packages pulseaudio recommends:
ii  gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio      0.10.16-4  GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio
ii  libasound2-plugins            1.0.21-1   ALSA library additional plugins
ii  pulseaudio-esound-compat      0.9.19-1   PulseAudio ESD compatibility layer
ii  pulseaudio-module-x11         0.9.19-1   X11 module for PulseAudio sound se

Versions of packages pulseaudio suggests:
ii  paman                         0.9.4-1    PulseAudio Manager
ii  paprefs                       0.9.8-1    PulseAudio Preferences
ii  pavucontrol                   0.9.9-1    PulseAudio Volume Control
ii  pavumeter                     0.9.3-1    PulseAudio Volume Meter
ii  pulseaudio-utils              0.9.19-1   Command line tools for the PulseAu

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