[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1042713: wireplumber: High cpu usage

Bastian Venthur venthur at debian.org
Tue Jul 8 13:36:26 BST 2025


Package: wireplumber
Version: 0.5.8-2
Followup-For: Bug #1042713
X-Debbugs-Cc: venthur at debian.org

I have the same issue. Sometimes Firefox seems to hang and I notice wireplumber
eating 100% CPU on one core. Restarting wireplumber fixes the issue and
unfreezes Firefox as well.

I don't have pipewire-libcamera installed. Here are some logs, I restarted wireplumber 14:29:

$ sudo journalctl -xe | grep pipewire
Jul 08 14:29:59 flix wireplumber[2532]: wireplumber: disconnected from pipewire

$ sudo journalctl -xe | grep wireplumber
Jul 08 14:02:32 flix wireplumber[2532]: spa.alsa: ALSA close failed: No such device
Jul 08 14:02:32 flix wireplumber[2532]: spa.alsa: error pcm info: No such device
Jul 08 14:02:32 flix wireplumber[2532]: spa.alsa: error iterating devices: No such device
Jul 08 14:02:32 flix wireplumber[2532]: spa.alsa: Failed to read jack detection from 'Headphone Jack'
Jul 08 14:02:32 flix wireplumber[2532]: spa.alsa: Failed to read jack detection from 'Line Out Jack'
Jul 08 14:02:32 flix wireplumber[2532]: spa.alsa: Failed to read jack detection from 'Headset Mic Jack'
Jul 08 14:29:59 flix wireplumber[2532]: wireplumber: stopped by signal: Terminated
Jul 08 14:29:59 flix systemd[2506]: Stopping wireplumber.service - Multimedia Service Session Manager...
Jul 08 14:29:59 flix wireplumber[2532]: wireplumber: disconnected from pipewire
Jul 08 14:29:59 flix systemd[2506]: Stopped wireplumber.service - Multimedia Service Session Manager.
Jul 08 14:29:59 flix systemd[2506]: wireplumber.service: Consumed 28min 15.565s CPU time, 13.2M memory peak.
Jul 08 14:29:59 flix systemd[2506]: Started wireplumber.service - Multimedia Service Session Manager.
Jul 08 14:29:59 flix wireplumber[66993]: wp-internal-comp-loader: Loading profile 'main'
Jul 08 14:29:59 flix wireplumber[66993]: wp-device: SPA handle 'api.alsa.acp.device' could not be loaded; is it installed?
Jul 08 14:29:59 flix wireplumber[66993]: s-monitors: Failed to create 'api.alsa.acp.device' device
Jul 08 14:30:01 flix wireplumber[66993]: wp-event-dispatcher: <WpAsyncEventHook:0x55a9ad8adbc0> failed: <WpSiStandardLink:0x55a9ad9aae20> link failed: 2 of 2 PipeWire links failed to activate
Jul 08 14:30:01 flix wireplumber[66993]: [5:38:59.776287101] [66993]  INFO Camera camera_manager.cpp:327 libcamera v0.4.0
Jul 08 14:30:02 flix wireplumber[66993]: s-monitors-utils: skipping device libcamera:\_SB_.PCI0.GPPA.XHC1.RHUB.PRT1-1:1.0-174f:11af
Jul 08 14:30:02 flix wireplumber[66993]: s-monitors-utils: skipping device libcamera:\_SB_.PCI0.GPPA.XHC1.RHUB.PRT1-1:1.2-174f:11af


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.15-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages wireplumber depends on:
ii  dbus-user-session [default-dbus-session-bus]  1.16.2-2
ii  init-system-helpers                           1.68
ii  libc6                                         2.41-9
ii  libglib2.0-0t64                               2.84.3-1
ii  libpipewire-0.3-0t64                          1.4.2-1
ii  libwireplumber-0.5-0                          0.5.8-2
ii  pipewire                                      1.4.2-1

Versions of packages wireplumber recommends:
ii  pipewire-pulse  1.4.2-1

Versions of packages wireplumber suggests:
ii  libspa-0.2-bluetooth  1.4.2-1
ii  libspa-0.2-libcamera  1.4.2-1
pn  wireplumber-doc       <none>

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