Hello!
Recently my sound has come out completely distorted when my CPU usage gets high, but not consistenly. I first noticed this a week ago when I was playing Bloons TD6. After a while my sound comes out like this, regardless of it being on laptop speakers or on headphones.
I have never had any issue like this before, not even when compiling packages which brought CPU usage up to 100%. I also have no idea how to troubleshoot this. I have not touched the pipewire packages, and the only change I’ve done that is sound related is changing Audacity’s default input to be on JACK. I cannot imagine this being relevant for this issue, as it (1) shouldn’t be and (2) it’s a very long time since I did so.
I’m running EndeavourOS’s i3 flavour.
System information
[runarcn@endeavour ~]$ pacman -Q | grep pipewire
gst-plugin-pipewire 1:0.3.73-1
kpipewire 5.27.6-1
libpipewire 1:0.3.73-1
pipewire 1:0.3.73-1
pipewire-alsa 1:0.3.73-1
pipewire-audio 1:0.3.73-1
pipewire-jack 1:0.3.73-1
pipewire-pulse 1:0.3.73-1
[runarcn@endeavour ~]$ neofetch
./o. runarcn@endeavour
./sssso- -----------------
`:osssssss+- OS: EndeavourOS Linux x86_64
`:+sssssssssso/. Host: 20X2S0DL00 ThinkPad L14 Gen 2
`-/ossssssssssssso/. Kernel: 6.4.1-arch2-1
`-/+sssssssssssssssso+:` Uptime: 28 mins
`-:/+sssssssssssssssssso+/. Packages: 1419 (pacman), 13 (flatpak)
`.://osssssssssssssssssssso++- Shell: bash 5.1.16
.://+ssssssssssssssssssssssso++: Resolution: 1920x1080
.:///ossssssssssssssssssssssssso++: WM: i3
`:////ssssssssssssssssssssssssssso+++. Theme: Adwaita [GTK2], Arc-Darker [GTK3]
`-////+ssssssssssssssssssssssssssso++++- Icons: Adwaita [GTK2], Qogir [GTK3]
`..-+oosssssssssssssssssssssssso+++++/` Terminal: xfce4-terminal
./++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++/:. Terminal Font: Source Code Pro 10
`:::::::::::::::::::::::::------`` CPU: 11th Gen Intel i3-1115G4 (4) @ 4.100GHz
GPU: Intel Tiger Lake-LP GT2 [UHD Graphics G4]
Memory: 2633MiB / 7602MiB
[runarcn@endeavour ~]$