ABDUL MOIZ wrote: > open("/usr/etc/pulse/daemon.conf", OK, this explains everything. Pulseaudio looks at the wrong config file, that's why your cpu-limit setting had no effect. The /usr/etc directory is even forbidden according to the FHS standard. Please rebuild pulseaudio so that it looks at /etc/pulse/daemon.conf: ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --with- udev-rules-dir=/lib/udev/rules.d -- Alexander E. Patrakov