As an additional data point... Another long pause of rhythmbox (i.e. I got up and left the room and came back an hour later) followed by a resume while PA was in this "CPU consumption" and PA is now, no longer consuming gobs of CPU. I didn't happen to notice how long after the pause that PA stopped consuming so much CPU, or if in fact it did stopped when I paused RB, or only when I resumed it again. I only just happen to notice it was no longer hogging after I had resumed RB again and went to see what the result was looking like. b. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20090528/d66440d1/attachment.pgp>