On 22/03/10 12:17, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > How about killing qtel, then killing pulseaudio, then starting pulseaudio, and > finally starting qtel, in that particular order? Would that recover pulseaudio > and cpu usage? (N.B. You should *not* need to be root for any of this, regular > user privileges should suffice.) > > HTH, :-) > Marko > > > Yes, that is essentially what I did, I kept shutting down things , the last being pulseaudio which restored normal cpu activity. But after "killing" pulseaudio using the pid indicated in top I had no way to restart it. "pulseaudio -D" did not restart so I tried what it suggested [being unaware of any reason not to do so]. Yes the "Qtel" application is probably the culprit, fortunately it's not an essential thing but I would have liked it to work. Bob -- -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines