Thank you for your bug report, that seems an issue indeed, you are the first one to report it though ... do you have any idea what could be special about your configuration?
** Changed in: indicator-sound (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to indicator-sound in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: dx-packages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1272942 Title: indicator-sound uses too much cpu under lightdm greeter Status in “indicator-sound” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Ubuntu 13.10 x64 When nobody is logged in on console, but pulseaudio and mpd are running, indicator-sound uses 50-70% of CPU. This is bad for power consumption and also bad for background jobs running in a vnc4server session. from top: 15215 lightdm 20 0 363m 4452 3440 R 68.8 0.1 0:20.62 indicator-sound 1431 pulse 9 -11 398m 6972 3960 R 29.6 0.2 6:43.14 pulseaudio 15103 root 20 0 201m 28m 22m R 27.9 0.8 0:09.51 Xorg 15130 lightdm 20 0 834m 39m 26m S 15.3 1.1 0:05.99 unity-greeter If I uninstall indicator-sound, then pulseaudio doesn't show up in top either. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-sound/+bug/1272942/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

