Comment 62 for bug 479296

I have the same problem when I'm watching a movie with totem, ubuntu starts to go very slow.

Ubuntu 9.10 64bits

>> lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (int gfx)
00:0a.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 5)
00:11.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 SATA Controller [AHCI mode]
00:12.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:12.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700 USB OHCI1 Controller
00:12.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700 USB OHCI1 Controller
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 3a)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 IDE Controller
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 LPC host controller
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge
00:14.5 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI2 Controller
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon HD 3200 Graphics
01:05.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RS780 Azalia controller
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02)
03:07.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7131/SAA7133/SAA7135 Video Broadcast Decoder (rev d1)
03:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB23 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)

>> tail -100 /var/log/syslog
Mar 14 19:46:50 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: ratelimit.c: 9 events suppressed
Mar 14 19:46:55 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: ratelimit.c: 47 events suppressed
Mar 14 19:47:00 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: ratelimit.c: 200 events suppressed
Mar 14 19:47:05 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: ratelimit.c: 196 events suppressed
Mar 14 19:47:10 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: ratelimit.c: 112 events suppressed
Mar 14 19:47:15 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: ratelimit.c: 130 events suppressed
Mar 14 19:47:20 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: ratelimit.c: 1 events suppressed
Mar 14 19:47:25 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: ratelimit.c: 97 events suppressed
Mar 14 19:47:30 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: ratelimit.c: 84 events suppressed
Mar 14 19:47:35 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: ratelimit.c: 50 events suppressed
Mar 14 19:47:40 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: ratelimit.c: 87 events suppressed
Mar 14 19:47:45 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: ratelimit.c: 332 events suppressed
Mar 14 19:47:52 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: ratelimit.c: 62 events suppressed
Mar 14 19:47:57 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: ratelimit.c: 35 events suppressed
Mar 14 19:48:02 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: ratelimit.c: 68 events suppressed
Mar 14 19:48:02 pcpedro wpa_supplicant[1267]: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS
Mar 14 19:48:07 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: ratelimit.c: 48 events suppressed
Mar 14 19:48:12 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: ratelimit.c: 41 events suppressed
Mar 14 19:48:17 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: ratelimit.c: 123 events suppressed
Mar 14 19:48:22 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: ratelimit.c: 39 events suppressed
Mar 14 19:48:33 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: ratelimit.c: 92 events suppressed
Mar 14 19:48:38 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: ratelimit.c: 30 events suppressed
Mar 14 19:48:43 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: ratelimit.c: 92 events suppressed
Mar 14 19:48:48 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: ratelimit.c: 118 events suppressed
Mar 14 19:48:53 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: ratelimit.c: 138 events suppressed
Mar 14 19:48:58 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: ratelimit.c: 159 events suppressed
Mar 14 19:49:03 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: ratelimit.c: 40 events suppressed
Mar 14 19:49:09 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: ratelimit.c: 106 events suppressed
Mar 14 19:49:14 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: ratelimit.c: 43 events suppressed
Mar 14 19:49:19 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: ratelimit.c: 175 events suppressed
Mar 14 19:49:24 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: ratelimit.c: 44 events suppressed
Mar 14 19:49:33 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: ratelimit.c: 194 events suppressed
Mar 14 19:49:43 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: ratelimit.c: 52 events suppressed
Mar 14 19:49:48 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: ratelimit.c: 40 events suppressed
Mar 14 19:49:53 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: ratelimit.c: 39 events suppressed
Mar 14 19:49:58 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: ratelimit.c: 127 events suppressed
Mar 14 19:50:03 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: ratelimit.c: 98 events suppressed
Mar 14 19:50:09 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: ratelimit.c: 75 events suppressed
Mar 14 19:50:14 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: ratelimit.c: 128 events suppressed
Mar 14 19:50:19 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: ratelimit.c: 46 events suppressed
Mar 14 19:50:29 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: ratelimit.c: 8 events suppressed
Mar 14 19:50:34 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: ratelimit.c: 124 events suppressed
Mar 14 19:50:42 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: ratelimit.c: 214 events suppressed
Mar 14 19:50:47 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: ratelimit.c: 69 events suppressed
Mar 14 19:50:52 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: ratelimit.c: 67 events suppressed
Mar 14 19:50:58 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: ratelimit.c: 461 events suppressed
Mar 14 19:50:58 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: asyncq.c: q overrun, queuing locally
Mar 14 19:51:03 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: last message repeated 10 times
Mar 14 19:51:03 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: ratelimit.c: 1232 events suppressed
Mar 14 19:51:03 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: asyncq.c: q overrun, queuing locally
Mar 14 19:51:10 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: last message repeated 10 times
Mar 14 19:51:10 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: ratelimit.c: 1558 events suppressed
Mar 14 19:51:10 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: asyncq.c: q overrun, queuing locally
Mar 14 19:51:17 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: last message repeated 10 times
Mar 14 19:51:17 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: ratelimit.c: 1748 events suppressed
Mar 14 19:51:17 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: asyncq.c: q overrun, queuing locally
Mar 14 19:51:22 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: last message repeated 10 times
Mar 14 19:51:22 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: ratelimit.c: 541 events suppressed
Mar 14 19:51:22 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: asyncq.c: q overrun, queuing locally
Mar 14 19:51:30 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: last message repeated 10 times
Mar 14 19:51:30 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: ratelimit.c: 1835 events suppressed
Mar 14 19:51:30 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: asyncq.c: q overrun, queuing locally
Mar 14 19:51:35 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: last message repeated 10 times
Mar 14 19:51:35 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: ratelimit.c: 1327 events suppressed
Mar 14 19:51:40 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: ratelimit.c: 220 events suppressed
Mar 14 19:51:45 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: ratelimit.c: 16 events suppressed
Mar 14 19:51:52 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: ratelimit.c: 89 events suppressed
Mar 14 19:51:52 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: asyncq.c: q overrun, queuing locally
Mar 14 19:51:58 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: last message repeated 10 times
Mar 14 19:51:58 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: ratelimit.c: 41 events suppressed
Mar 14 19:51:58 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: asyncq.c: q overrun, queuing locally
Mar 14 19:52:02 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: last message repeated 10 times
Mar 14 19:52:03 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: ratelimit.c: 97 events suppressed
Mar 14 19:52:03 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: asyncq.c: q overrun, queuing locally
Mar 14 19:52:25 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: last message repeated 10 times
Mar 14 19:52:25 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: ratelimit.c: 1160 events suppressed
Mar 14 19:52:25 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: asyncq.c: q overrun, queuing locally
Mar 14 19:52:30 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: last message repeated 10 times
Mar 14 19:52:30 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: ratelimit.c: 5059 events suppressed
Mar 14 19:52:43 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: ratelimit.c: 165 events suppressed
Mar 14 19:52:43 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: asyncq.c: q overrun, queuing locally
Mar 14 19:52:50 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: last message repeated 10 times
Mar 14 19:52:50 pcpedro pulseaudio[4100]: ratelimit.c: 1257 events suppressed
Mar 14 19:53:39 pcpedro pulseaudio[13741]: pid.c: Stale PID file, overwriting.
Mar 14 19:53:40 pcpedro pulseaudio[13741]: alsa-mixer.c: Your kernel driver is broken: it reports a volume range from 6,00 dB to 6,00 dB which makes no sense.
Mar 14 19:53:43 pcpedro pulseaudio[13741]: last message repeated 6 times
Mar 14 19:53:43 pcpedro pulseaudio[13754]: pid.c: Daemon already running.
Mar 14 19:53:43 pcpedro pulseaudio[13755]: pid.c: Daemon already running.
Mar 14 19:54:47 pcpedro pulseaudio[13741]: ratelimit.c: 1068 events suppressed
Mar 14 19:54:47 pcpedro pulseaudio[13741]: asyncq.c: q overrun, queuing locally
Mar 14 19:55:06 pcpedro pulseaudio[13741]: last message repeated 10 times
Mar 14 19:55:06 pcpedro pulseaudio[13741]: ratelimit.c: 50 events suppressed
Mar 14 19:55:49 pcpedro pulseaudio[13741]: ratelimit.c: 335 events suppressed

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