Ubuntu
pulseaudio package

  1. Bug #340631
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 340631

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Richard Jonsson (richard-jonsson-bredband) wrote :

Ok, I just got this again. Starting a flash video clip in firefox:
pulse process at 60% and also noticed that syslogd process was at a constant 39%. Then checked /var/log/syslog and it's hammered with messages like these:

Mar 10 17:08:07 richie-laptop pulseaudio[4564]: alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_avail_update() returned a value that is exceptionally large: 16140901064420282444 bytes (384306774581 ms) Most likely this is a Linux bug. Please report this issue to the ALSA developers.
Mar 10 17:08:07 richie-laptop pulseaudio[4564]: alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_avail_update() returned a value that is exceptionally large: 16140901064420267084 bytes (384306774501 ms) Most likely this is a Linux bug. Please report this issue to the ALSA developers.
Mar 10 17:08:07 richie-laptop pulseaudio[4564]: alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_avail_update() returned a value that is exceptionally large: 16140901064420251724 bytes (384306774421 ms) Most likely this is a Linux bug. Please report this issue to the ALSA developers.

I had watched a few clips before this occured. When killing the pulse process firefox sprung away to 100%, but for that I blame abobe flash.

To add to my last comment, I had previously set resample-method to ffmpeg, and it now is at the default src-linear, which is a setting I had briefly tested before.