Pulseaudio 40% of CPU

[JD]

  On 10/19/2010 01:35 AM, Hiisi wrote:
> 2010/10/19 JD<jd1008 at gmail.com>:
>>   I played one video on youtube, then
>> killed the youtube browser tab.
> <--SNIP-->... I have to always
>> kill pulseaudio so I can get some response back.
>>
> Actually not answering your question, but just wanted to confirm this
> problem on my system (2.6.32.21-168.fc12.i686). I often have to do the
> same!
> In my opinion 'flash' is an ugly thing. And, to be honest, I'm the one
> among those whom to blame for its wide usage. I was working nearly for
> 5 years as a part-time teacher at school, teaching schoolboys to use
> flash in web-projects. Now I do not know how to atone for my sins :-)
> Looking forward for html5 video support in FireFox. Hope it became
> video-standard some day...
But pulseaudio is not part of the flash plugin from Adobe.
It is a separate Fedora released package.
Flash, which has finished playing and the Firefox
tab in whichit played is killed, does not explain why
pulseaudio continue to eat 40% of cpu, probably in
tight do nothing loop.