Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 10:00:04 -0800 (PST) From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/17066: audio/xmms chewing CPU (and skipping too) Message-ID: <200002291800.KAA58279@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/17066; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org>
To: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, esk@ira.uka.de
Subject: Re: ports/17066: audio/xmms chewing CPU (and skipping too)
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 17:55:54 +0000
On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 06:34:42AM +0100, Juergen Lock wrote:
>
> >Number: 17066
> >Category: ports
> >Synopsis: audio/xmms chewing CPU (and skipping too)
> >Confidential: no
> >Severity: non-critical
> >Priority: low
> >Responsible: freebsd-ports
> >State: open
> >Quarter:
> >Keywords:
> >Date-Required:
> >Class: sw-bug
> >Submitter-Id: current-users
> >Arrival-Date: Mon Feb 28 21:50:00 PST 2000
> >Closed-Date:
> >Last-Modified:
> >Originator: Juergen Lock
> >Release: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386
> >Organization:
> me? organized??
> >Environment:
>
> gettext-0.10.35, glib-1.2.7, gtk-1.2.7, libxml-1.8.6
>
> >Description:
>
> Even when playing a .wav (so nothing to decompress...)
> xmms chews up all cpu cycles it can get, even hitting
> pause doesn't change that... and it also doesn't seem
> to do any buffering at all, it keeps skipping (even when
> playing just a .wav) in situations where e.g. bplay_gramo
> didn't skip _once_.
>
> It looks like a really nice program but these two things make
> it so much less useful than it could be... :(
>
> And right now as i type this it just died like this:
>
> Fatal error 'Cannot set scheduling timer' at line ? in file /dnes4/usr/w/usr/home5/cvs/src31/src/lib/libc_r/uthread/uthread_kern.c (errno = ?)
>
> Oh and it could also stat() at least .wav files to get the
> length instead of trusting the header for that because
> thats not always right...
>
> >How-To-Repeat:
>
> just start it and look at `top'. and then listen to it
> when the system is loaded...
>
> >Fix:
>
> i with i knew. (well other than running it on a spare box
> thats always idle enough, if you have one...)
>
Have you tried applying the patch in kern/16709? That fixed a whole
load of speed related stuff for me (that only appeared in 1.0.1, 0.9.5
was fine).
> >Release-Note:
> >Audit-Trail:
> >Unformatted:
>
>
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