Comment 37 for bug 532586

May 7 17:50:15 deepblue pulseaudio[9676]: alsa-util.c: stream : PLAYBACK
May 7 17:50:15 deepblue pulseaudio[9676]: alsa-util.c: access : MMAP_INTERLEAVED
May 7 17:50:15 deepblue pulseaudio[9676]: alsa-util.c: format : S16_LE
May 7 17:50:15 deepblue pulseaudio[9676]: alsa-util.c: subformat : STD
May 7 17:50:15 deepblue pulseaudio[9676]: alsa-util.c: channels : 2
May 7 17:50:15 deepblue pulseaudio[9676]: alsa-util.c: rate : 44100
May 7 17:50:15 deepblue pulseaudio[9676]: alsa-util.c: exact rate : 44100 (44100/1)
May 7 17:50:15 deepblue pulseaudio[9676]: alsa-util.c: msbits : 16
May 7 17:50:15 deepblue pulseaudio[9676]: alsa-util.c: buffer_size : 16384
May 7 17:50:15 deepblue pulseaudio[9676]: alsa-util.c: period_size : 8192
May 7 17:50:15 deepblue pulseaudio[9676]: alsa-util.c: period_time : 185759
May 7 17:50:15 deepblue pulseaudio[9676]: alsa-util.c: tstamp_mode : ENABLE
May 7 17:50:15 deepblue pulseaudio[9676]: alsa-util.c: period_step : 1
May 7 17:50:15 deepblue pulseaudio[9676]: alsa-util.c: avail_min : 15503
May 7 17:50:15 deepblue pulseaudio[9676]: alsa-util.c: period_event : 0
May 7 17:50:15 deepblue pulseaudio[9676]: alsa-util.c: start_threshold : -1
May 7 17:50:15 deepblue pulseaudio[9676]: alsa-util.c: stop_threshold : 1073741824
May 7 17:50:15 deepblue pulseaudio[9676]: alsa-util.c: silence_threshold: 0
May 7 17:50:15 deepblue pulseaudio[9676]: alsa-util.c: silence_size : 0
May 7 17:50:15 deepblue pulseaudio[9676]: alsa-util.c: boundary : 1073741824
May 7 17:50:15 deepblue pulseaudio[9676]: alsa-util.c: appl_ptr : 4457581
May 7 17:50:15 deepblue pulseaudio[9676]: alsa-util.c: hw_ptr : 4361384

4457581-4361384 = 96197 which is more than 5 times of the buffer size 16384

it is strange that appl ptr is ahead of hw_ptr but the distance is larger than the buffer size