Pulseadio emitting loads of system messages

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opensuse v11.2, linux

The system messages log show thousands of these messages below. One every 5 seconds. Is this expected? Is there a fix?

Feb 26 12:12:18 sma-station14l pulseaudio[3214]: ratelimit.c: 15 events suppressed
Feb 26 12:12:23 sma-station14l pulseaudio[3214]: ratelimit.c: 16 events suppressed
Feb 26 12:12:28 sma-station14l pulseaudio[3214]: ratelimit.c: 15 events suppressed
Feb 26 12:12:33 sma-station14l pulseaudio[3214]: ratelimit.c: 16 events suppressed
Feb 26 12:12:38 sma-station14l pulseaudio[3214]: ratelimit.c: 15 events suppressed
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No its not expected. I read of a Fedora user who had that problem, and it stopped when he stopped some mail notification application. … but IMHO its a bug associated with some mal behaved application that you are running.

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On 26/02/10 19:26, jimoe666 wrote:
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> opensuse v11.2, linux
>
> The system messages log show thousands of these messages below. One
> every 5 seconds. Is this expected? Is there a fix?
>

Do you really need pulseaudio? Many people ditch it and I thought 11.2
didn’t install it as routine, or am I confused - again?

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We run Windows in a Virtual Machine (VirtualVBox). If pulseaudio is not enabled and selected, the VM can bogart the sound channel preventing other applications, like Flashplayer, from making noise.

Initially disabling pulseaudio seemed like a good idea. It was not.