My system crashes regularly due to probably the alsa driver. The system suddenly becomes unusable slow, although the music keeps playing. I tried to submit it to the ALSA team, but I can't get in their bug submitting system ... This is on a HP 8530w with a Intel 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio
Feb 18 21:54:11 laptop pulseaudio[1980]: [alsa-sink] alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_avail() returned a value that is exceptionally large: 404124 bytes (2290 ms).
Feb 18 21:54:11 laptop pulseaudio[1980]: [alsa-sink] alsa-util.c: Most likely this is a bug in the ALSA driver 'snd_hda_intel'. Please report this issue to the ALSA developers.
Feb 18 21:54:11 laptop pulseaudio[1980]: [alsa-sink] alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_dump():
Feb 18 21:54:11 laptop pulseaudio[1980]: [alsa-sink] alsa-util.c: Hardware PCM card 0 'HDA Intel' device 0 subdevice 0
Feb 18 21:54:11 laptop pulseaudio[1980]: [alsa-sink] alsa-util.c: Its setup is:
Feb 18 21:54:11 laptop pulseaudio[1980]: [alsa-sink] alsa-util.c: stream : PLAYBACK
Feb 18 21:54:11 laptop pulseaudio[1980]: [alsa-sink] alsa-util.c: access : MMAP_INTERLEAVED
Feb 18 21:54:11 laptop pulseaudio[1980]: [alsa-sink] alsa-util.c: format : S16_LE
Feb 18 21:54:11 laptop pulseaudio[1980]: [alsa-sink] alsa-util.c: subformat : STD
Feb 18 21:54:11 laptop pulseaudio[1980]: [alsa-sink] alsa-util.c: channels : 2
Feb 18 21:54:11 laptop pulseaudio[1980]: [alsa-sink] alsa-util.c: rate : 44100
Feb 18 21:54:11 laptop pulseaudio[1980]: [alsa-sink] alsa-util.c: exact rate : 44100 (44100/1)
Feb 18 21:54:11 laptop pulseaudio[1980]: [alsa-sink] alsa-util.c: msbits : 16
Feb 18 21:54:11 laptop pulseaudio[1980]: [alsa-sink] alsa-util.c: buffer_size : 16384
Feb 18 21:54:11 laptop pulseaudio[1980]: [alsa-sink] alsa-util.c: period_size : 8192
Feb 18 21:54:11 laptop pulseaudio[1980]: [alsa-sink] alsa-util.c: period_time : 185759
Feb 18 21:54:11 laptop pulseaudio[1980]: [alsa-sink] alsa-util.c: tstamp_mode : ENABLE
Feb 18 21:54:11 laptop pulseaudio[1980]: [alsa-sink] alsa-util.c: period_step : 1
Feb 18 21:54:11 laptop pulseaudio[1980]: [alsa-sink] alsa-util.c: avail_min : 13034
Feb 18 21:54:11 laptop pulseaudio[1980]: [alsa-sink] alsa-util.c: period_event : 0
Feb 18 21:54:11 laptop pulseaudio[1980]: [alsa-sink] alsa-util.c: start_threshold : -1
Feb 18 21:54:11 laptop pulseaudio[1980]: [alsa-sink] alsa-util.c: stop_threshold : 1073741824
Feb 18 21:54:11 laptop pulseaudio[1980]: [alsa-sink] alsa-util.c: silence_threshold: 0
Feb 18 21:54:11 laptop pulseaudio[1980]: [alsa-sink] alsa-util.c: silence_size : 0
Feb 18 21:54:11 laptop pulseaudio[1980]: [alsa-sink] alsa-util.c: boundary : 1073741824
Feb 18 21:54:11 laptop pulseaudio[1980]: [alsa-sink] alsa-util.c: appl_ptr : 113727673
Feb 18 21:54:11 laptop pulseaudio[1980]: [alsa-sink] alsa-util.c: hw_ptr : 113812320
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