syslog is filling up because of pulseaudio. HELP!

Niels Weber nathelbiya at gmail.com
Sun Apr 12 06:14:55 UTC 2009


2009/1/26 Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org>:
> Steven W. Orr wrote:
>>
>> I'm getting two of these per second. How can I stop it!
>>
>> Jan 26 11:21:00 saturn pulseaudio[4130]: module-alsa-sink.c: ALSA woke us
>> up to write new data to the device, but there was actually nothing to write!
>> Most likely this is an ALSA driver bug. Please report this issue to the
>> PulseAudio developers.
>
> A bug report has already been filed against rsyslog for adding rate limits.
> PulseAudio IIRC is now including a workaround for this as well. Refer
> fedora-devel list discussions for details.

I noticed my system getting slower about two weeks ago. I think the
culprit in my case is the filling up of /var/log/messages with this
error.
I guess this is somehow related but as that first report was from
January and I only started getting it since late March, it has perhaps
been reintroduced?

Niels




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