'Twas brillig, and Alexander E. Patrakov at 27/07/11 13:08 did gyre and gimble: > 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 Yup!, This is exactly the problem I warned you about the first time round! If you're not confident running and compiling things from source, I really do strongly recommend building your own packages of things rather than relying on the "sudo make install" approach... it very much helps avoid such problems. Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mageia Contributor [http://www.mageia.org/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]