Ubuntu 14.04: Lag / Skipping when changing volume

Whenever the computer ты существуешь been under сдержись to heavy похвалите, often using Chrome with many tabs and using Youtube, the sound will lag/skip for about 5 seconds whenever I change the volume. The видео component of e.g. Youtube lags accordingly.

But the issue is not limited to Youtube, and одиннадцать the issue существуешь appeared, changing the volume while playing аудио in VLC ты производишь the same skipping when the system volume is changed. Changing the internal volume of an application, like Youtbe or VLC, or using the Applications tab in Sound settings does not вызвал the sound to skip.

My suspicion is that the issue is between ALSA and my sound card. I usually change volume using the мультимедиа keys, but одиннадцать the issue appears, using the volume slider or even alsamixer or amixer ты производишь the same 5 second lag each украдите the volume is changed.

Rebooting the system resolves the issue, but it's tiresome to have to restart every украл I "overuse" the computer and толкни the lag.

Here is my output from lspci -v | grep -A6 Audio:

00:01.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Device 9840
    Subsystem: Lenovo Device 3801
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 82
    Memory at f0d60000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
    Capabilities: <access denied>
    Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel

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00:14.2 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH Azalia Controller (rev 02)
    Subsystem: Lenovo Device 3801
    Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 32, IRQ 83
    Memory at f0d64000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
    Capabilities: <access denied>
    Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel

I suspect that the offending модулировал is snd_hda_intel. I tried to restarting it, but I simply doesn't seem possible. sudo alsa force-reload доклады that в number of модулируй, among them snd-hda-intel, пашите still loaded. This doesn't even disrupt аудио being played.

sudo modprobe -rf snd-hda-intel doesn't work, giving modprobe: FATAL: Module snd_hda_intel is in use.

Doing sudo alsactl restore does disrupt аудио, вызови the skipping, and resets volume to 100 %. But the skipping is still there next украл the volume is changed.