Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 14:52:08 -0500 From: Coleman Kane <cokane@one.net> To: Michael Hohmuth <hohmuth@innocent.com> Cc: John Reynolds~ <jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com>, wsanborn@uswest.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xmms 1.0.1 uses 95% cpu Message-ID: <20000304145208.A17196@evil.2y.net> In-Reply-To: <87itz4q5hn.fsf@olymp.sax.de>; from hohmuth@innocent.com on Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 06:55:06AM -0500 References: <20000223215739.B326@marder-1> <38BE3C3C.17337.42ADED6@localhost> <14526.45359.533982.635973@hip186.ch.intel.com> <87itz4q5hn.fsf@olymp.sax.de>
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I noticed this too, I have found that it chews more CPU when not playing music! It uses about 96% cpu on my box when stopped or paused, compared to 83% when playing audio! --cokane Michael Hohmuth had the audacity to say: > [ I have missed the beginning of the thread -- I hope I do not miss > the point completely. ] > > John Reynolds~ <jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com> writes: > > > which version of xmms? 0.9.5.1 is the one I've reverted to, but the latest one > > in the ports tree, 1.0.1, sucks even worse for performance. > > > > With 0.9.5.1 the scope and volume controls update and "respond" normally to > > mouse events, etc. It just chews the crap out of CPU. With 1.0.1, the scope > > updates about once per second and the volume/seek controls are completely > > unresponsive (just as was mentioned in a previous posting on this topic). > > I believe that you are experiencing a driver problem: XMMS 1.0 uses > select() or poll() which some sound drivers do not implement. > > I fixed this particular problem by implementing poll() for the > ES1370/ES1371 PCI driver in FreeBSD-STABLE (used by the Soundblaster > AudioPCI 128, for example). See bug report kern/16709 for my patch. > > > Does 4.0 suffer this problem too? > > I have no idea. 4.0 has a new, different sound driver. > > Michael > -- > hohmuth@innocent.com, hohmuth@sax.de > http://www.sax.de/~hohmuth/ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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