From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 21 22:47:29 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0648E16A4CE for ; Sun, 21 Nov 2004 22:47:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D5DC43D5D for ; Sun, 21 Nov 2004 22:47:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottl@freebsd.org) Received: from [192.168.254.11] (junior-wifi.samsco.home [192.168.254.11]) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id iALMo8H8050562; Sun, 21 Nov 2004 15:50:08 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from scottl@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <41A11B24.9070603@freebsd.org> Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 15:48:04 -0700 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040929 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: nocturnal References: <41A0C6D3.3060108@swehack.se> In-Reply-To: <41A0C6D3.3060108@swehack.se> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.86.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=3.8 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on pooker.samsco.org cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: High xmms CPU usage X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 22:47:29 -0000 nocturnal wrote: > Hello > > After i stripped my kernel of 486 and 586 cpu support my xmms has > started to use more cpu. It used to be that xmms took around 0-1% and > that was when i had it up on the desktop with visuals moving on it, > minimized it took nothing in cpu. Now it wobbles around 4-6% constantly > when i'm playing music, i noticed this pretty fast since it shows quite > well in the gkrellm application when you are used to seeing nothing at all. > > System specs: > IBM Thinkpad R40 using pcm for sound on FreeBSD 4.10 with latest xmms port. Just to be sure, did you by chance accidentally enable INVARIANTS and/or WITNESS when you recompiled your kernel? Scott