2010/7/27 Chris cpollock@embarqmail.com

Raymond, please look at the attached file that was gleamed from a 552k hourly syslog snippet. From what I can see PA is not working correctly and it's sucking up all my memory not to mention causing my HD to thrash for minutes at a time. For instance, the drive was being accessed from 10pm to around 10:20 continously, I was finally able to log out and shut down PA through MCC. Also look at the one entry where clamav would not run.

http://ez-files.net/646514

Jul 26 20:44:40 localhost spamd[17669]: rules: failed to run CLAMAV test, skipping: Jul 26 20:44:40 localhost spamd[17669]: (__alarm__ignore__(172) Jul 26 20:44:40 localhost spamd[17669]: ) Jul 26 20:44:42 localhost spamd[17669]: check: exceeded time limit in Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::Check::_eval_tests_type13_prineg100_set3, skipping further tests Jul 26 20:44:44 localhost spamd[17669]: plugin: eval failed: __alarm__ignore__(131)

I've currently got PA disabled in MCC I'm afraid to restart because of all the problems, any advice?? I don't see a fix in sight.

Thanks for all your help

Chris

It is quite clear that the sound card ens1371 is underrun as appl_ptr is behind hw_ptr

It is strange that PA server use 1 period per buffer (16384) which is different from your daemon.conf and also different from your two bug report at mandriva bugzilla

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.alsa.devel/75101/focus=75105

Do this mean that some parameters in daemon.conf is obsolete ?

https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=56473#c15

https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=60169#c0

Although 16384 is multiple of 8 but one period per buffer is unlikely to work on those non HDA sound cards

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.alsa.devel/66376/focus=66484

Jul 26 20:41:13 localhost pulseaudio[26721]: (89776.590| 0.062) alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_delay() returned a value that is exceptionally large: -424360 bytes (-2405 ms). Jul 26 20:41:13 localhost pulseaudio[26721]: (89776.590| 0.062) alsa-util.c: Most likely this is a bug in the ALSA driver 'snd_ens1371'. Please report this issue to the ALSA developers. Jul 26 20:41:13 localhost pulseaudio[26721]: (89776.634| 0.043) alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_dump(): Jul 26 20:41:13 localhost pulseaudio[26721]: (89776.634| 0.043) alsa-util.c: Hardware PCM card 0 'Ensoniq AudioPCI' device 0 subdevice 0 Jul 26 20:41:13 localhost pulseaudio[26721]: (89776.634| 0.043) alsa-util.c: Its setup is: Jul 26 20:41:13 localhost pulseaudio[26721]: (89776.634| 0.043) alsa-util.c: stream : PLAYBACK Jul 26 20:41:13 localhost pulseaudio[26721]: (89776.634| 0.043) alsa-util.c: access : MMAP_INTERLEAVED Jul 26 20:41:13 localhost pulseaudio[26721]: (89776.634| 0.043) alsa-util.c: format : S16_LE Jul 26 20:41:13 localhost pulseaudio[26721]: (89776.634| 0.043) alsa-util.c: subformat : STD Jul 26 20:41:13 localhost pulseaudio[26721]: (89776.634| 0.043) alsa-util.c: channels : 2 Jul 26 20:41:13 localhost pulseaudio[26721]: (89776.634| 0.043) alsa-util.c: rate : 44100 Jul 26 20:41:13 localhost pulseaudio[26721]: (89776.634| 0.043) alsa-util.c: exact rate : 44101 (1445100000/32768) Jul 26 20:41:13 localhost pulseaudio[26721]: (89776.634| 0.043) alsa-util.c: msbits : 16 Jul 26 20:41:13 localhost pulseaudio[26721]: (89776.634| 0.043) alsa-util.c: buffer_size : 16384 Jul 26 20:41:13 localhost pulseaudio[26721]: (89776.634| 0.043) alsa-util.c: period_size : 16384 Jul 26 20:41:13 localhost pulseaudio[26721]: (89776.634| 0.043) alsa-util.c: period_time : 371510 Jul 26 20:41:13 localhost pulseaudio[26721]: (89776.634| 0.043) alsa-util.c: tstamp_mode : ENABLE Jul 26 20:41:13 localhost pulseaudio[26721]: (89776.634| 0.043) alsa-util.c: period_step : 1 Jul 26 20:41:13 localhost pulseaudio[26721]: (89776.634| 0.043) alsa-util.c: avail_min : 16384 Jul 26 20:41:13 localhost pulseaudio[26721]: (89776.634| 0.043) alsa-util.c: period_event : 0 Jul 26 20:41:13 localhost pulseaudio[26721]: (89776.634| 0.043) alsa-util.c: start_threshold : -1 Jul 26 20:41:13 localhost pulseaudio[26721]: (89776.634| 0.043) alsa-util.c: stop_threshold : 1073741824 Jul 26 20:41:13 localhost pulseaudio[26721]: (89776.634| 0.043) alsa-util.c: silence_threshold: 0 Jul 26 20:41:13 localhost pulseaudio[26721]: (89776.634| 0.043) alsa-util.c: silence_size : 0 Jul 26 20:41:13 localhost pulseaudio[26721]: (89776.634| 0.043) alsa-util.c: boundary : 1073741824 Jul 26 20:41:13 localhost pulseaudio[26721]: (89776.634| 0.043) alsa-util.c: appl_ptr : 389015462 Jul 26 20:41:13 localhost pulseaudio[26721]: (89776.634| 0.043) alsa-util.c: hw_ptr : 389121552 Jul 26 20:41:13 localhost pulseaudio[26721]: (89776.669| 0.035) alsa-sink.c: Increasing wakeup watermark to 120.11 ms