Comment 6 for bug 424655

Are you using the PPA?

On Oct 11, 2009 1:00 PM, "Jeff Schroeder" <email address hidden>
wrote:

This is a HUGE regression. I left a karmic desktop turned on overnight.
In the morning I was trying to figure out why my computer was so slow.
It turns out that pdflush was writing data to disk (swap) as fast as
possible and was stuck in IO Wait (D state in ps aux). pulseaudio was
taking almost 80% of my 8G of memory. Not cool.

19170 jeff 20 0 12.2g 6.2g 1464 S 0 79.9 14:35.83
/usr/bin/pulseaudio --start

This should be a release blocker.

** Changed in: pulseaudio (Ubuntu)
      Status: Incomplete => Confirmed

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Status in “pulseaudio” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed

Bug description:

Binary package hint: pulseaudio Pulse audio routinely uses 2GB+ over the
course of a few hours. D...