Installed pulse-audio - 128 M of temp files upon login

Is this normal when using pulse-audio:
$ ls -l /dev/shm
total 100
-r-------- 1 facade users 67108904 May 1 10:16 pulse-shm-2730750796
-r-------- 1 facade users 67108904 May 1 10:16 pulse-shm-3048609656
-r-------- 1 facade users 67108904 May 1 10:16 pulse-shm-3201059327

Are these files actually needed for anything? If not and if there is no option to disable their creation in a conf somewhere (I found none), I added the following to my ~/.bashrc which takes care of it:
if [ ! -z $(find /dev/shm/ -maxdepth 1 -name "pulse-shm*") ]; then
for i in $(ls /dev/shm/pulse-shm*); do rm -f $i; done
fi
...is there a more efficient method?
Last edited by graysky (2011-05-07 09:45:34)

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