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Re: how to get rid of pulseaudio gracefully



On Fri, 2012-01-27 at 21:29 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote:
> On 27/01/12 20:48, Miles Bader wrote:
> > Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
> >> Running wheezy - kde plasma desktop
> >>
> >> I want to get rid of pulseaudio.  I almost never even use sound in
> >> linux and I see it always chugging away at 5-8 % cpu.  That seems a
> >> bit extreme some how.
> > 
> > It seems worth reporting a bug if it's really consuming that much CPU on
> > a regular basis... I've never seen it consuming significant CPU on any
> > of my systems (although it's certainly running, and seems to work fine);
> > when playing a video or something with sound, sometimes PA hits 1%.
> > 
> > Maybe it's a bug in the way KDE uses it (I don't use KDE)?
> > 
> > -Miles
> > 
> 
> I use KDE (on Squeeze) and Pulse rarely uses more than 2% [snip]

When not used?

FWIW the Ubuntu (Edubuntu Maverick) I've got, with PA installed runs
GNOME2.

- Ralf


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