I am seeing the same problem with 8.10

 PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND             
                     
21084 bkc       20   0 2995m  64m  23m S    0  0.8   0:29.14 gaim           

in my case, there isn't any process with 'pulse' in it, and audacious
fails to run w/ pulse output (but works with alsa)

I just upgraded from 7.04 to 8.10 over the weekend, so still working out
the bugs..

Now I have killed and restarted it (as pidgin). Here's something
interesting.

go to preferences, sounds. Change 'method' to "ALSA" and then click the
preview button a bunch of times, watch top report.. memory usage doesn't
change too much.

Now change "method" to "automatic". Every time I click preview, top
shows a 10megabyte increase in VIRT for pidgin.

change method back to "alsa" and click preview a few more times, memory
does not increase.

meanwhile pulse doesn't seem to be running (I guess).  syslog shows
this:

ec  2 22:51:12 fire pulseaudio[19617]: ltdl-bind-now.c: Failed to find original 
dlopen loader.
Dec  2 22:51:12 fire pulseaudio[19617]: pid.c: Stale PID file, overwriting.
Dec  2 22:51:12 fire pulseaudio[19617]: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_NICE, (31, 
31)) failed: Operation not permitted
Dec  2 22:51:12 fire pulseaudio[19617]: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_RTPRIO, (9, 
9)) failed: Operation not permitted


tried /etc/init.d/pulseaudio start, that failed, but after reading the notes, 
as the logged in user I tried:

fire:/vmware/Phoenix> pulseaudio --daemonize
W: ltdl-bind-now.c: Failed to find original dlopen loader.

anyway, for pidgin I'll stick to alsa for now.

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Extreme memory leak in Pidgin when attempting to play sound
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