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  1. Bug #451893
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 451893

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Michael B. Trausch (mtrausch) wrote :

It would appear that the best way to trigger it is to play lots of sounds. Every time a new system event sound plays, for example, PA opens /dev/snd/timer 3 more times. I have no log messages to indicate why, nor can I otherwise explain this highly odd behavior. This means that the time to syslog beginning to fill up depends on how many events are played through the speakers.

It may happen at other times, too. I just restarted PA and already have many open instances of /dev/snd/timer:

mbt@zest:/proc/31224/fd$ ls -l /proc/$(pgrep pulseaudio)/fd|grep timer
lr-x------ 1 mbt mbt 64 2009-10-15 22:16 27 -> /dev/snd/timer
lr-x------ 1 mbt mbt 64 2009-10-15 22:16 28 -> /dev/snd/timer
lr-x------ 1 mbt mbt 64 2009-10-15 22:16 29 -> /dev/snd/timer
lr-x------ 1 mbt mbt 64 2009-10-15 22:16 45 -> /dev/snd/timer
lr-x------ 1 mbt mbt 64 2009-10-15 22:16 46 -> /dev/snd/timer
lr-x------ 1 mbt mbt 64 2009-10-15 22:16 47 -> /dev/snd/timer
lr-x------ 1 mbt mbt 64 2009-10-15 22:16 48 -> /dev/snd/timer
lr-x------ 1 mbt mbt 64 2009-10-15 22:16 49 -> /dev/snd/timer
lr-x------ 1 mbt mbt 64 2009-10-15 22:16 50 -> /dev/snd/timer
lr-x------ 1 mbt mbt 64 2009-10-15 22:16 51 -> /dev/snd/timer
lr-x------ 1 mbt mbt 64 2009-10-15 22:16 52 -> /dev/snd/timer
lr-x------ 1 mbt mbt 64 2009-10-15 22:16 53 -> /dev/snd/timer
lr-x------ 1 mbt mbt 64 2009-10-15 22:16 54 -> /dev/snd/timer
lr-x------ 1 mbt mbt 64 2009-10-15 22:16 55 -> /dev/snd/timer
lr-x------ 1 mbt mbt 64 2009-10-15 22:16 58 -> /dev/snd/timer
lr-x------ 1 mbt mbt 64 2009-10-15 22:16 59 -> /dev/snd/timer
lr-x------ 1 mbt mbt 64 2009-10-15 22:16 60 -> /dev/snd/timer
lr-x------ 1 mbt mbt 64 2009-10-15 22:16 64 -> /dev/snd/timer
lr-x------ 1 mbt mbt 64 2009-10-15 22:16 65 -> /dev/snd/timer
lr-x------ 1 mbt mbt 64 2009-10-15 22:16 66 -> /dev/snd/timer
mbt@zest:/proc/31224/fd$ ps -f $(pgrep pulseaudio)
UID PID PPID C STIME TTY STAT TIME CMD
mbt 25546 1 0 22:12 ? Ssl 0:02 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start -
mbt@zest:/proc/31224/fd$ pulseaudio --version
pulseaudio 0.9.19
mbt@zest:/proc/31224/fd$ apt-cache show pulseaudio
Package: pulseaudio
Priority: optional
Section: sound
Installed-Size: 4268
Maintainer: Ubuntu Core Developers <email address hidden>
Original-Maintainer: Pulseaudio maintenance team <email address hidden>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1:0.9.19-0ubuntu2