306MB of VM seems a bit excessive for a sound daemon, yes? $ cat /proc/6828/status Name: pulseaudio State: S (sleeping) Tgid: 6828 Pid: 6828 PPid: 1 TracerPid: 0 Uid: 1001 1001 1001 1001 Gid: 1001 1001 1001 1001 FDSize: 256 Groups: 4 20 24 25 29 30 44 46 106 107 108 111 121 133 1001 1010 1011 2000 VmPeak: 450088 kB VmSize: 313528 kB VmLck: 0 kB VmHWM: 206832 kB VmRSS: 98112 kB VmData: 236088 kB VmStk: 84 kB VmExe: 64 kB VmLib: 8732 kB VmPTE: 308 kB Threads: 6 SigQ: 0/16382 SigPnd: 0000000000000000 ShdPnd: 0000000000000000 SigBlk: 0000000000000000 SigIgn: 0000000000381000 SigCgt: 0000000180004a43 CapInh: 0000000000000000 CapPrm: 0000000000000000 CapEff: 0000000000000000 CapBnd: ffffffffffffffff Cpus_allowed: 3 Cpus_allowed_list: 0-1 Mems_allowed: 1 Mems_allowed_list: 0 voluntary_ctxt_switches: 189323036 nonvoluntary_ctxt_switches: 1224202 Seems it's even been as high as 450MB! This is 0.9.22, 0.9.22~0.9.21+stable-queue-32-g8478- 0ubuntu14~~karmic~ubuntuaudiodev1 to be exact. Thots? b.