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pulseaudio log messages

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After I installed Ubuntu 9.10 I noticed a many log messages from pulseaudio in "user.log" section from System Log Viewer:

Nov 7 12:20:07 ubuntu pulseaudio[1440]: ratelimit.c: 16 events suppressed
Nov 7 12:20:12 ubuntu pulseaudio[1440]: ratelimit.c: 13 events suppressed
Nov 7 12:20:21 ubuntu pulseaudio[1440]: ratelimit.c: 8 events suppressed
Nov 7 13:26:53 ubuntu pulseaudio[1441]: ratelimit.c: 109 events suppressed
Nov 7 13:27:15 ubuntu pulseaudio[1441]: ratelimit.c: 90 events suppressed
Nov 7 13:27:44 ubuntu pulseaudio[1441]: ratelimit.c: 94 events suppressed
Nov 7 13:36:00 ubuntu pulseaudio[1441]: alsa-sink.c: ALSA woke us up to write new data to the device, but there was actually nothing to write!
Nov 7 13:36:00 ubuntu pulseaudio[1441]: alsa-sink.c: Most likely this is a bug in the ALSA driver 'snd_via82xx'. Please report this issue to the ALSA developers.
Nov 7 13:36:00 ubuntu pulseaudio[1441]: alsa-sink.c: We were woken up with POLLOUT set -- however a subsequent snd_pcm_avail() returned 0 or another value < min_avail.
Nov 7 13:54:14 ubuntu pulseaudio[1441]: ratelimit.c: 88 events suppressed
Nov 7 13:56:21 ubuntu pulseaudio[1441]: ratelimit.c: 89 events suppressed
Nov 7 14:14:44 ubuntu pulseaudio[1441]: ratelimit.c: 72 events suppressed
Nov 7 14:16:20 ubuntu pulseaudio[1441]: ratelimit.c: 91 events suppressed
Nov 7 14:17:41 ubuntu pulseaudio[1441]: ratelimit.c: 82 events suppressed
Nov 7 14:20:51 ubuntu pulseaudio[1441]: ratelimit.c: 91 events suppressed

This is just part of the log. There are a lot of similar messages.
Is this bad? Should I worry?

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johnnynyquist (johnnynyquist) said : 		#1

"Me too." my log is full of just this message:

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Mar 31 01:52:22 poppy pulseaudio[3814]: last message repeated 13 times
Mar 31 01:52:27 poppy pulseaudio[3814]: ratelimit.c: 15 events suppressed
Mar 31 01:52:32 poppy pulseaudio[3814]: ratelimit.c: 15 events suppressed
Mar 31 01:52:37 poppy pulseaudio[3814]: ratelimit.c: 16 events suppressed
Mar 31 01:52:42 poppy pulseaudio[3814]: ratelimit.c: 15 events suppressed
Mar 31 01:52:47 poppy pulseaudio[3814]: ratelimit.c: 16 events suppressed
Mar 31 01:53:52 poppy pulseaudio[3814]: last message repeated 13 times
Mar 31 01:54:37 poppy pulseaudio[3814]: last message repeated 8 times
...

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