Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 15:48:32 -0700 (MST) From: John Reynolds <jjreynold@home.com> To: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: any resolution to xmms hogging 99% of the CPU? Message-ID: <14677.15040.56130.327654@whale.home-net>
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Hello all, I've searched the archives for threads on this topic--that of xmms eating vast amounts of CPU needlessly (while not even playing songs)--but there never was any pattern to the problem nor resolution discovered. About a week ago I CVSup'ed ports and compiled xmms 1.2.0. Low and behold it stopped chewing CPU!!! It consumed about 5-7% while decoding an MP3 and 0-.5% when idle. Wonderful I thought. Last night I CVSup'ed ports again and went on a rampage upgrading lots o' stuff (gnome being one of the key things). I also upgraded to xmms 1.2.1. Well, when I installed 1.2.1 it started chewing freaking CPU up again!!! I think to myself "crap, well better back-out back down to 1.2.0 and complain to the xmms people...". So, I retrieve the exact ports files from CVS that were checked in when the port was updated to 1.2.0 (comments indicating "1.0.1 -> 1.2.0") and recompile. Install, and now THAT version chews up CPU like always! CRAP! I did not recompile a kernel or make/install world inbetween all this port updating, so I have no idea what in the crap is going on here. I deleted every single component of GNOME and recompiled that--could that have ANYTHING to do with this (some library sharing thing)? I'm running 3.5-STABLE as of 2 hours after we went from 3.4->3.5. I've got an "older" PCI128 with the es1370 chipset, using the pcm driver. I've seen reports in the mailing archives that this problem exists with other sound cards such as the AWE64 too. Does anybody have a resolution to this problem or any idea how to track it down? One of the threads mentioned that xmms is a threaded app. Could there be a bug in our libc_r? I'm totally out of clues. Do people see this problem with 4.0 and/or newpcm? How 'bout -current? -Jr -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= John Reynolds Chandler Capabilities Engineering, CDS, Intel Corporation jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com My opinions are mine, not Intel's. Running jjreynold@home.com FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE. FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://members.home.com/jjreynold/ Come join us!!! @ http://www.FreeBSD.org/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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