Comment 38 for bug 400820

I am raising this to high importance. I am running Xubuntu, which does not use pulse audio. I am seeing the same issues reported. Having the gnome-volume-control-applet using 40% of the cpu and attempting to spawn unknown other processes severely impacts the ability to work on the system. This bug was sent upstream upstream and they closed it as a distribution bug.

This does need to be resolved for Karmic to be useful.