[Novalug] is pulseaudio a small cpu hog?

greg pryzby greg@pryzby.org
Mon Nov 30 09:56:35 EST 2015


You need to turn speech off and then stop it.
Check under accessibility for screen reader, speech, etc....


On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 9:44 AM pereira via Novalug <
novalug@firemountain.net> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> after an upgrade my system (Ubuntu 14.10) seems to run slower than it used
> to. In looking for a culprit I tried 'top'. When the system isn't doing
> anything,
> 'pulseaudio' is always there and taking 1 % of the CPU.
>
> In the list of programs given by 'ps aux', the program 'speech+' is the
> only one up to  7893 that takes more than 0.0 % of the CPU (like here:
>
> USER           PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME
> COMMAND
> root             1  0.0  0.0  33868  3172 ?        Ss   Nov28   0:02
> /sbin/init
> (snip)
> root           1476  0.0  0.0  10228  3692 ?        S    Nov28 0:00
> /sbin/dhclient
> root           1478  0.0  0.0 287584  4168 ?        Sl   Nov28 0:00
> /usr/lib/accoun
> speech-+  1488  1.0  0.0 637024  5988 ?        SNl  Nov28  31:05
> /usr/bin/pulsea
> rtkit           1490  0.0  0.0 168912  1292 ?        SNl  Nov28 0:01
> /usr/lib/rtkit/
> nobody      1521  0.0  0.0  31024  1508 ?        S    Nov28   0:02
> /usr/sbin/dnsma
> (snip)
>
> Is this normal? Or should I kill speech+-, which I do not know how to
> use anyway?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Nino
>
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