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graysky

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installed pulse-audio - 128 M of temp files upon login

Is this normal when using pulse-audio:

$ ls -l /dev/shm
total 100
-r--------  1 facade users 67108904 May  1 10:16 pulse-shm-2730750796
-r--------  1 facade users 67108904 May  1 10:16 pulse-shm-3048609656
-r--------  1 facade users 67108904 May  1 10:16 pulse-shm-3201059327

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ngoonee

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Re: installed pulse-audio - 128 M of temp files upon login

Yes

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graysky

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Re: installed pulse-audio - 128 M of temp files upon login

Are these files actually needed for anything?  If not and if there is no option to disable their creation in a conf somewhere (I found none), I added the following to my ~/.bashrc which takes care of it:

if [ ! -z $(find /dev/shm/ -maxdepth 1 -name "pulse-shm*") ]; then
 for i in $(ls /dev/shm/pulse-shm*); do rm -f $i; done
fi

...is there a more efficient method?

Last edited by graysky (2011-05-07 09:45:34)

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ngoonee

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Re: installed pulse-audio - 128 M of temp files upon login

Why remove them? As far as I can recall, SHM is so pulseaudio can do its 'zero-copy' magic entirely in RAM, otherwise it falls back to using something else (probably something slower). Not clear on the details, if you search 'zero-copy' you should find something.

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