I want to submit a bug report on the below. This issue was noted in Mandriva 2010 and is still present in 2010.1
pulseaudio[24553]: alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_delay() returned a value that is exceptionally large: -161920 bytes (-917 ms). localhost pulseaudio[24553]: alsa-util.c: Most likely this is a bug in the ALSA driver 'snd_ens1371'. Please report this issue to the ALSA developers. localhost pulseaudio[24553]: alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_dump(): localhost pulseaudio[24553]: alsa-util.c: Hardware PCM card 0 'Ensoniq AudioPCI' device 0 subdevice 0 localhost pulseaudio[24553]: alsa-util.c: Its setup is: localhost pulseaudio[24553]: alsa-util.c: stream : PLAYBACK localhost pulseaudio[24553]: alsa-util.c: access : MMAP_INTERLEAVED localhost pulseaudio[24553]: alsa-util.c: format : S16_LE localhost pulseaudio[24553]: alsa-util.c: subformat : STD localhost pulseaudio[24553]: alsa-util.c: channels : 2 localhost pulseaudio[24553]: alsa-util.c: rate : 44100 localhost pulseaudio[24553]: alsa-util.c: exact rate : 44101 (1445100000/32768) localhost pulseaudio[24553]: alsa-util.c: msbits : 16 localhost pulseaudio[24553]: alsa-util.c: buffer_size : 4408 localhost pulseaudio[24553]: alsa-util.c: period_size : 1102 localhost pulseaudio[24553]: alsa-util.c: period_time : 24988 localhost pulseaudio[24553]: alsa-util.c: tstamp_mode : ENABLE localhost pulseaudio[24553]: alsa-util.c: period_step : 1 localhost pulseaudio[24553]: alsa-util.c: avail_min : 1102 localhost pulseaudio[24553]: alsa-util.c: period_event : 1 localhost pulseaudio[24553]: alsa-util.c: start_threshold : -1 localhost pulseaudio[24553]: alsa-util.c: stop_threshold : 1155530752 localhost pulseaudio[24553]: alsa-util.c: silence_threshold: 0 localhost pulseaudio[24553]: alsa-util.c: silence_size : 0 localhost pulseaudio[24553]: alsa-util.c: boundary : 1155530752 localhost pulseaudio[24553]: alsa-util.c: appl_ptr : 735801008 localhost pulseaudio[24553]: alsa-util.c: hw_ptr : 735846184 localhost pulseaudio[24553]: ratelimit.c: 280 events suppressed localhost pulseaudio[24553]: asyncq.c: q overrun, queuing locally
Because of the constant disk access when this is happening my system becomes almost unusable.