Hi, should pulseaudio actually use that much memory? $ cat status Name: pulseaudio State: S (sleeping) Tgid: 1972 Ngid: 0 Pid: 1972 PPid: 1 TracerPid: 0 Uid: 1000 1000 1000 1000 Gid: 500 500 500 500 FDSize: 64 Groups: 4 6 10 11 36 63 464 468 469 500 VmPeak: 2326912 kB VmSize: 2326912 kB VmLck: 0 kB VmPin: 0 kB VmHWM: 1843468 kB VmRSS: 1843468 kB VmData: 1987020 kB VmStk: 136 kB VmExe: 80 kB VmLib: 15592 kB VmPTE: 4164 kB VmSwap: 524 kB Threads: 3 SigQ: 0/62970 SigPnd: 0000000000000000 ShdPnd: 0000000000000000 SigBlk: 0000000000000000 SigIgn: 0000000000381000 SigCgt: 0000000180004a43 CapInh: 0000000000000000 CapPrm: 0000000000000000 CapEff: 0000000000000000 CapBnd: 0000001fffffffff Seccomp: 0 Cpus_allowed: 1 Cpus_allowed_list: 0 Mems_allowed: 1 Mems_allowed_list: 0 voluntary_ctxt_switches: 12348713 nonvoluntary_ctxt_switches: 4858656 $ journalctl -r _PID=1972 -- Logs begin at Sa 2013-06-29 22:06:32 CEST, end at Mi 2014-01-29 00:31:29 CET. -- Jan 24 18:45:44 localhost.localdomain pulseaudio[1972]: [alsa-sink-USB Audio] alsa-util.c: Could not recover from POLLERR|POLLNVAL|POLLHUP with snd_pcm_prepare(): Kein passendes Ger?t gefund Jan 24 18:45:44 localhost.localdomain pulseaudio[1972]: [alsa-sink-USB Audio] alsa-util.c: Got POLLNVAL from ALSA Jan 24 18:42:14 localhost.localdomain pulseaudio[1972]: [alsa-sink-USB Audio] alsa-util.c: Could not recover from POLLERR|POLLNVAL|POLLHUP with snd_pcm_prepare(): Kein passendes Ger?t gefund Jan 24 18:42:14 localhost.localdomain pulseaudio[1972]: [alsa-sink-USB Audio] alsa-util.c: Got POLLNVAL from ALSA Name : pulseaudio Architektur : x86_64 Version : 4.0 Ausgabe : 9.gitf81e3.fc20 Gr??e : 3.1 M Quelle : installed Aus Quelle : updates Zusammenfassung: Improved Linux Sound Server URL : http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio Lizenz : LGPLv2+ Beschreibung: PulseAudio is a sound server for Linux and other Unix like operating : systems. It is intended to be an improved drop-in replacement for the : Enlightened Sound Daemon (ESOUND). $ uptime 00:33:10 up 8 days