Using pkill or kill ps aux (inside a script) to kill processes results in Pulseaudio losing audio connection?

Winampah

6/2/23, 12:01 PM

I have this script that searches for multiple applications and kills them for situations of low memory (or when browser starts to lag CPU)

pkill -f 'chrome --type=renderer' (Kills only browser tabs, not entire browser)  
pkill -f 'firefox'  
pkill -f 'ffmpeg'  
pkill -f 'Portion_Of_Your_App_Name_Here'

Activated by a hotkey.

When using said commands individually from a terminal, processes get killed and pulseaudio continues working (other applications continue playing audio normally)

It's only when I use the SCRIPT itself that Pulseaudio seems to be killed too?
edit: Which also results in OBS-Studio losing audio connection

Is there a workaround for this?
pkill or kill -9 'ps aux | grep' results in same behavior

using the "time" command yields these results:  
time pkill -f 'string portion of process name'
time to run= 0.018s
\n  
time script.sh (SCRIPT RUNS)  
time to run= 0.262s (much higher execution time... syntax problem?)

It's also curious to notice that killall command takes only 0.006s to run instead of 0.018s of pkill or pgrep
Also notice this issue did not happen in previous distro version (older pulseaudio version 16.04 distro, which had other issues but not this one specifically)

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I sit in a Tesla and translated this thread with Ai:

EN: Using pkill or kill ps aux (inside a script) to kill processes results in Pulseaudio losing audio connection?

TH: การใช้ pkill หรือ kill ps aux (ภายในสคริปต์) เพื่อฆ่ากระบวนการส่งผลให้ Pulseaudio ขาดการเชื่อมต่อเสียง

RO: Utilizarea pkill sau kill ps aux (în interiorul unui script) pentru a ucide procesele duce la pierderea conexiunii audio a Pulseaudio?

RU: Использование pkill или kill ps aux (внутри скрипта) для уничтожения процессов приводит к тому, что Pulseaudio теряет аудиосоединение?

VI: Sử dụng pkill hoặc kill ps aux (bên trong tập lệnh) để hủy các tiến trình dẫn đến Pulseaudio mất kết nối âm thanh?

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