I experience this problem and I am quite positive it is related to
sound. My sound has been really buggy lately and I lose it a random
times (most likely watching a flash video, then waiting a little while).
I am not sure of the exact cause, whether it's a sound from pidgin
occurring while I watch the flash video or whatever. The point is this
when I lost my sound my computer began to go really slow. I checked top
and sorted by memory usage, and pidgin was around 1.7gb My guess is a
memory leak, and it only happened when I lost audio. I'd definitely
check into the sound portion of the code to see if there is a leak there
when pidgin cannot play a sound because /dev/dsp is unabled to be opened
(it's not busy...)

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Extreme memory leak in Pidgin when attempting to play sound
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/200392
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