pulseaudio on f16 using cpu

[Peter Gueckel]

Peter Gueckel wrote:

> I have noticed that pulseaudio uses upwards of 16% CPU and when I start
> krunner to investigate, I see that there are often numerous pulseaudio
> processes all running simultaneously, but greyed out. And this, while I am
> not even using any applications that emit sound!
> 
> It is so bad, that the mouse is often locked up for a few seconds, screens
> won't update, etc., because of the high load.
> 
> I tried killing pulseaudio --kill ad a new one was generated and the same
> is happening.
> 
> When I try to use an application to play music, for example, no sound is
> emitted and the application gets stuck.
> 
> What is causing this and how do I get rid of it?
> 

Very strange! It has been going like this all evening, to the point that I 
could barely use the system. Now, I just started kpat(ience) and it makes 
sounds when one moves that cards and suddenly all is working fine!

I wonder if there is a problem with pulseaudio and resuming the system from 
suspend to RAM?