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Title:
  pulseaudio[1641]: ratelimit.c: 22715 events suppressed

Status in alsa-driver package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: pulseaudio

  Kubuntu 10.10 64bit. I was having some audio problems since upgrading
  to 10.10 from 10.04. I got sick of it and did a fresh install. Total
  wipe of the drive and reinstall from cd. First boot seemed ok, but
  quickly ran into problems. Originally when I had this problem, I was
  using a Creative X-Fi PCI SB0730 (XtremeGamer I believe). I was
  getting a lot of "pulseaudio[1641]: ratelimit.c: 22715 events
  suppressed" in /var/log/messages.

  pulseaudio:
    Installed: 1:0.9.22~0.9.21+stable-queue-32-g8478-0ubuntu21.1
    Candidate: 1:0.9.22~0.9.21+stable-queue-32-g8478-0ubuntu21.1
    Version table:
   *** 1:0.9.22~0.9.21+stable-queue-32-g8478-0ubuntu21.1 0
          500 http://ubuntu.mirror.frontiernet.net/ubuntu/ maverick-updates/main amd64 Packages
          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-updates/main amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
       1:0.9.22~0.9.21+stable-queue-32-g8478-0ubuntu21 0
          500 http://ubuntu.mirror.frontiernet.net/ubuntu/ maverick/main amd64 Packages
          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main amd64 Packages

  I saw some others were having trouble and needed the pulseaudio logs.
  I did get one while I was having the trouble, I'll try to post that.

  Note: I've since removed the X-Fi and am using a Diamond Monster Sound
  ES1968 PCI card. On first boot, things seemed fine. KDE sounds were
  fine and I even watched a <2 mins YouTube vid with no trouble. I then
  opened VLC and was playing a song, about 75% through the song, sound
  was cutting out. Skipping and the whole system became very slow and
  almost unresponsive. Once I closed VLC (kill) everything came back...
  except sound. Now, even after rebooting, sound is sporadic. That's why
  I believe this is a pulseaudio problem and no something specific to
  the X-Fi.

  lspci
  00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82Q35 Express DRAM Controller (rev 02)
  00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82Q35 Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 02)
  00:03.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 82Q35 Express MEI Controller (rev 02)
  00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82566DM-2 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 02)
  00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
  00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 02)
  00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 02)
  00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
  00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
  00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
  00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 02)
  00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 02)
  00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 02)
  00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
  00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
  00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
  00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
  00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 92)
  00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801IO (ICH9DO) LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)
  00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801IR/IO/IH (ICH9R/DO/DH) 6 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02)
  00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
  01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV770 LE [Radeon HD 4800 Series]
  01:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc HD48x0 audio
  04:00.0 IDE interface: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88SE6101 single-port PATA133 interface (rev b2)
  07:00.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1978 Maestro 2E (rev 10)

  Pretty much anything that uses sound, makes the system almost
  unresponsive. If I tail -f /var/log/messages when this happens, I
  start seeing the pulseaudio ratelimit repeating. Several times I've
  seen 5 events suppressed. I've seen a couple thousand events
  suppressed, I've seen over 20,000 events suppressed in one line.

  Oh, FYI... If I use VLC and tell it to use ALSA directly, there's a
  few skips here and there. But for the most part, it's acceptable. My
  uneducated guess is ALSA is skipping (rare, and not all the time) and
  pulseaudio doesn't know what to do and pukes.

  If you are interested, I've had some troubleshooting done by a helpful
  forum member here:
  http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?topic=3114316

  
  --- 
  AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.23.
  Architecture: amd64
  ArecordDevices:
   **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
   card 0: E2E [ESS ES1978 (Maestro 2E)], device 0: ESS Maestro [ESS Maestro]
     Subdevices: 1/1
     Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
  AudioDevicesInUse:
   USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
   /dev/snd/controlC0:  clickwir   1768 F.... pulseaudio
  Card0.Amixer.info:
   Card hw:0 'E2E'/'ESS ES1978 (Maestro 2E) at 0x1000, irq 21'
     Mixer name	: 'SigmaTel STAC9721,23'
     Components	: 'AC97a:83847609'
     Controls      : 31
     Simple ctrls  : 21
  Card1.Amixer.info:
   Card hw:1 'HDMI'/'HDA ATI HDMI at 0xe0110000 irq 48'
     Mixer name	: 'ATI R6xx HDMI'
     Components	: 'HDA:1002aa01,00aa0100,00100100'
     Controls      : 4
     Simple ctrls  : 1
  Card1.Amixer.values:
   Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
     Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum
     Playback channels: Mono
     Mono: Playback [on]
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
  InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
  NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
  Package: alsa-driver (not installed)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-23.36-generic 2.6.35.7
  Tags: maverick
  Uname: Linux 2.6.35-23-generic x86_64
  UserGroups:
   
  dmi.bios.date: 11/24/2009
  dmi.bios.vendor: Intel Corp.
  dmi.bios.version: JOQ3510J.86A.1126.2009.1124.2311
  dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag
  dmi.board.name: DQ35JO
  dmi.board.vendor: Intel Corporation
  dmi.board.version: AAD82085-804
  dmi.chassis.type: 3
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnIntelCorp.:bvrJOQ3510J.86A.1126.2009.1124.2311:bd11/24/2009:svn:pn:pvr:rvnIntelCorporation:rnDQ35JO:rvrAAD82085-804:cvn:ct3:cvr:

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