Comment 15 for bug 451893

Whew, I just ran into this bug - suddenly I got a message that my file system was almost full, my CPU was pegged by pulseaudio and rsyslogd, and a few minutes later my file system was full with many gigs of /var/log/syslog and /var/log/user.log. About 31 million lines in each file for pulseaudio:

(after i gzipped them and rotated)

overridex@citadel-station:/var/log$ zcat syslog.1.gz | grep pulseaudio | wc -l
31001234
overridex@citadel-station:/var/log$ zcat user.log.1.gz | grep pulseaudio | wc -l
31000642

The lines appear to all (or at least mostly) be:

Nov 29 17:19:30 citadel-station pulseaudio[2365]: socket-server.c: accept(): Too many open files
Nov 29 17:19:30 citadel-station pulseaudio[2365]: socket-server.c: accept(): Too many open files
Nov 29 17:19:30 citadel-station pulseaudio[2365]: socket-server.c: accept(): Too many open files

Cause?:

I've been using karmic on this system without a problem with pulseaudio since the first beta. Last night I changed my speaker configuration in my volume control from "Analog Stereo Duplex" to "Analog Surround 5.1 Output". I have to think that's related based on the timing. I shut this computer off every night, so this isn't something that just built up over time.

I'd be happy to provide any additional information that anyone would like regarding this.

-Dan