how to turn off all audio?
by Skaperen from LinuxQuestions.org on (#59G8J)
how to turn off all audio? at times, even when no audio is playing, the pulseaudio process uses a lot of CPU. right now it is running at 103.7% and there is no audio playing (nor any intended or attempted). here is the line from top:
Code: 2743 pulse 9 -11 344440 38260 8836 S 103.7 0.2 91:15.08 pulseaudioi am running pulseaudio in system mode because i switch between users a lot, several times an hour among typically 12 userids i have logged in. when i do play music, i like for it to keep playing when i switch userid. when i kill pulseaudio it starts up separate servers for each userid and i must reboot to get system mode enabled, again.
Code: 2743 pulse 9 -11 344440 38260 8836 S 103.7 0.2 91:15.08 pulseaudioi am running pulseaudio in system mode because i switch between users a lot, several times an hour among typically 12 userids i have logged in. when i do play music, i like for it to keep playing when i switch userid. when i kill pulseaudio it starts up separate servers for each userid and i must reboot to get system mode enabled, again.