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I'm running a vanilla, fairly new (a month) installation of Unbuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala on a desktop computer. My sound appears to be working fine, I can listen to music as well as flash audio under firefox and chrome. I'm running VMWare Server with a single Windows XP guest. My sound card is onboard the motherboard.

My /var/log/messages however gets filled with messages like the following :

Mar 10 10:18:01 ew2155e pulseaudio[29063]: ratelimit.c: 2 events suppressed
Mar 10 10:18:23 ew2155e pulseaudio[29063]: ratelimit.c: 1 events suppressed
Mar 10 10:30:08 ew2155e pulseaudio[29063]: ratelimit.c: 2 events suppressed
Mar 10 10:30:49 ew2155e pulseaudio[29063]: ratelimit.c: 2 events suppressed
Mar 10 10:31:18 ew2155e pulseaudio[29063]: ratelimit.c: 3 events suppressed
Mar 10 10:32:27 ew2155e pulseaudio[29063]: ratelimit.c: 1 events suppressed
Mar 10 10:34:11 ew2155e pulseaudio[29063]: ratelimit.c: 3 events suppressed
Mar 10 10:35:14 ew2155e pulseaudio[29063]: ratelimit.c: 1 events suppressed
Mar 10 10:35:24 ew2155e pulseaudio[29063]: ratelimit.c: 3 events suppressed
Mar 10 10:42:02 ew2155e pulseaudio[29063]: ratelimit.c: 2 events suppressed
Mar 10 10:43:12 ew2155e pulseaudio[29063]: ratelimit.c: 3 events suppressed
Mar 10 10:43:27 ew2155e pulseaudio[29063]: ratelimit.c: 3 events suppressed
Mar 10 10:43:44 ew2155e pulseaudio[29063]: ratelimit.c: 2 events suppressed
Mar 10 10:47:41 ew2155e pulseaudio[29063]: ratelimit.c: 1 events suppressed
Mar 10 10:48:18 ew2155e pulseaudio[29063]: ratelimit.c: 2 events suppressed
  1. What's causing these messages?
  2. What underlying message with content is being suppressed? If I could understand what ratelimit.c is suppressing I might be able to troubleshoot the problem.

I've read through some entries on ubuntuforums.org where people are asking about these messages but with no luck.

gene_wood
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From https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/545065 :

Edit /etc/pulse/daemon.conf and change the line log-level = notice to log-level = error.

Ben Pilbrow
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Yojimbo
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grep pulseaudio /var/log/messages | grep -v ratelimit

(it's not suppressing all the messages, just the later ones that are flooding the logs...)

anon
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