Ubuntu - pulseaudio log messages

There are no problems with audio/video but the user logs show this type of message regularly:- pulseaudio[1836]: ratelimit.c: 7 events suppressed
I have this in both Lucid and Karmic and have no idea what it all means. Maybe another bug that can be ignored ?

 

I get them too, so do others, there are programs like Skype which use Pulse but they have bugs of their own, these tend to generate this entries more than others.

 

I get them all the time. Sometimes I will see 500 messages suppressed, etc.. Also, PA wont play my system sounds.

I actually hate PA but I stick to it because I have a couple of programs that need it. I suggest you try out OSS -- it is wonderful and never gives error messages, never blinks, never cuts out, etc. It replaces ALSA and PA and comes with its own mixer. It just works.

Again the only reason I use PA is because I have one or two programs that wont work with OSS. Otherwise i would dump PA and ALSA for OSS again. It is 1000 times better and never gives error messages. It's a shame a few programs wont work with it. (for me those two programs are GTK-record-my-desktop and projectM).

 

Also if you use Pidgin and install OSS, make sure to disable sounds in the former as it would lock up the kernel otherwise.

 

Never been a problem for me.

 

You mean to say you don't get hardlock when there is a sound event in Pidgin?

 

Strange, since I installed padevchooser the message shows up only once when I first play an audio or video file. Subsequent playing no longer generates these messages.

 

Good tip, will give that a try, btw, massive Ubuntu update including new kernel, gedit, nautilus and more yesterday, it was around 70mb.

 

No massive update here yet. Yesterday nvidia current/common, today synaptic update manager ..

 

Strange, check update manager again, maybe the time difference but I got 2.6.32.22 running here.

 

That's the kernel I also have - got it 2 or 3 days ago.

 

Ha ha ha it seems I am the one who is behind.