high CPU usage

[luka6000]

I'm not using audio on hass. At all. How can I disable audio container? It is using a lot of CPU

ha > audio info
audio:
application: []
card: []
input: []
output:

• applications: []
  card: null
  default: true
  description: Dummy Output
  index: 0
  mute: false
  name: auto_null
  volume: 1
  host: 172.30.32.4
  update_available: false
  version: 2021.02.1
  version_latest: 2021.02.1

It is the most CPU hungry process of all containers

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES %CPU %MEM TIME+ S COMMAND
1169 root 20 0 87.8m 39.3m 0.0 2.1 24:01.66 S python3 -m supervisor
1760 root 20 0 789.6m 17.6m 0.7 0.9 9:04.55 S coredns -conf /etc/corefile
2499 root 9 -11 77.2m 4.7m 8.7 0.2 594:06.99 S pulseaudio --system -vvv --disallow-exit --exit-idle-time=-+
2761 root 20 0 0.7m 0.0m 0.0 0.0 3:10.00 S mdns-repeater -f eth0 hassio
3163 root 20 0 16.5m 15.8m 0.7 0.8 4:52.70 S mosquitto -c /etc/mosquitto.conf
3875 root 20 0 265.7m 67.9m 9.3 3.6 399:23.11 S deCONZ -platform xcb --auto-connect=1 --dbg-info=1 --dbg-ap+
2936 root 20 0 430.9m 270.0m 9.3 14.1 41:33.77 S python3 -m homeassistant --config /config

Every second it takes 100% CPU core for a short while. It's 10x the actual homeassistant core process.
And I don't even need it. So, how to disable audio support on hass?

[cogneato]

Can you include your system details? Is this HA OS? Debian?

[frenck]

(please post the output of ha info as that helps us reproducing). Thanks 👍

[luka6000]

This is hass os

ha > info
arch: armv7
channel: stable
docker: 19.03.13
features:

• reboot
• shutdown
• services
• network
• hostname
• hassos
  hassos: "5.12"
  homeassistant: 2021.3.4
  hostname: homeassistant
  logging: info
  machine: raspberrypi4
  operating_system: Home Assistant OS 5.12
  state: running
  supervisor: 2021.03.6
  supported: true
  supported_arch:
• armv7
• armhf
  timezone: Europe/Warsaw

[radicalmachine]

I too, am suffering with this issue. Running supervised in docker on a Pi4. Please advise what logs would be helpful in troubleshooting

output of 'docker stats'

CONTAINER ID NAME CPU % MEM USAGE / LIMIT MEM % NET I/O BLOCK I/O PIDS
2c019c589295 hassio_audio 20.79% 0B / 0B 0.00% 59.9kB / 690B 0B / 57.3kB 9
45ba8d058a82 addon_core_configurator 0.02% 0B / 0B 0.00% 2.67MB / 1.29MB 15.2MB / 24.6kB 4
a1f72d777087 addon_core_duckdns 0.00% 0B / 0B 0.00% 2.82MB / 131kB 8.21MB / 20.5kB 7
d02c7c16fe31 hassio_multicast 0.00% 0B / 0B 0.00% 0B / 0B 4.15MB / 16.4kB 4
1c6b8a3ea3c8 hassio_cli 0.00% 0B / 0B 0.00% 2.43MB / 494B 152kB / 0B 5
43486b98bc20 hassio_dns 0.03% 0B / 0B 0.00% 2.79MB / 710kB 18.5MB / 20.5kB 13
3d81d13d6291 homeassistant 1.70% 0B / 0B 0.00% 0B / 0B 28.7kB / 149MB 17
f77cc835e228 hassio_observer 0.00% 0B / 0B 0.00% 2.57MB / 36.1kB 11.9MB / 4.1kB 8
81f23424dd4c hassio_supervisor 0.00% 0B / 0B 0.00% 5.81MB / 4.57MB 145MB / 381kB 13

output of 'ha info'

$ ha info
arch: armv7
channel: stable
docker: 20.10.7
features:

• reboot
• shutdown
• services
• network
• hostname
• timedate
  hassos: null
  homeassistant: 2021.6.6
  hostname: raspberrypi
  logging: info
  machine: raspberrypi4
  operating_system: Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
  state: running
  supervisor: 2021.06.6
  supported: false
  supported_arch:
• armv7
• armhf
  timezone: Europe/London

[soeffi]

Did anyone solve this yet?

I have the same problem on a fresh hass os install.
(Home Assistant 2022.12.8 Supervisor 2022.11.2 Operating System 9.4 Frontend 20221213.1 - latest)

Any means to disable the audio container for now?

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[robotpandarocket]

Still happens to me on 2024.12.4 and OS 14.0

[agners]

@robotpandarocket can you share details about your system? E.g. the output of ha info.

There have been some PRs which do address high CPU usage at least in certain situations.

[robotpandarocket]

Sure. I'm running HA inside of Proxmox on a Trigkey Mini PC with a 8th Gen Intel 8109U. Sporadically (once a week or so), the cpu usage spikes from an average of 5-8% to 60+% and will not come back down with a regular Hassio restart. Instead, I need to restart the VM. I dug into the logs a while back, it's pulse audio related by the looks of it (I don't have the logs handy right now, but will post next time it spikes again)

➜ ~ ha info
arch: amd64
channel: stable
docker: 27.2.0
features:

• reboot
• shutdown
• services
• network
• hostname
• timedate
• os_agent
• haos
• resolved
• journal
• disk
• mount
  hassos: "14.1"
  homeassistant: 2024.12.4
  hostname: homeassistant
  logging: info
  machine: qemux86-64
  operating_system: Home Assistant OS 14.1
  state: running
  supervisor: 2024.12.0
  supported: true
  supported_arch:
• amd64
• i386
  timezone: Africa/Johannesburg