Performance Issues with XMMS

Brent Fox bfox at redhat.com
Wed Jul 23 19:46:00 UTC 2003


On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 03:52, Bill Rhodes wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Jul 2003, Warren Togami wrote:
> > On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 20:39, Bill Rhodes wrote:
> > > I don't think this has anything to do with XMMS.  I can get the CPU to peg
> > > at 100% just by dragging windows around, or running ls against /usr/lib
> > > (or some other directory with a large number of files).  It happens
> > > whether XMMS is playing (either MP3 or OGG files) or not.  Although
> > > anytime the CPU usage gets that high, XMMS skips (for me at least).
> >
> > What video card?  Using stock or 3rd party drivers?
> 
> ATI Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x (Mach64), using stock driver as detected by
> the installer (ati).
> 
> > What sound card?  Using which driver?
> 
> Well, if I can get the CPU to peg without even starting XMMS, why would
> that matter?  But just for the sake of completeness, I've got a Crystal
> SoundFusion CS 4614 sound card, using the cs46xx driver (whith
> "thinkpad=1" passed as an option in /etc/modules.conf).
> 
> Incidentally, if I boot into runlevel 3 and then ssh in and run 'ls -lR /'
> remotely, the CPU is fine.  If I start X (KDE, in my case) and run that
> same command from a konsole window, the CPU usage spikes to 100% (looks
> like X is about 60% and kdeinit is 30%, with the rest being ls).  If I run
> GNOME and ran that same command locally, gnome-terminal likes to grab
> about 85% of the cpu.  Running ls remotely while GNOME is up uses no
> appreciable CPU.
> 
> XMMS skips when I run that command locally, playing either OGG or MP3
> files.  It does not skip when I run it remotely.  I don't think the
> problem is with XMMS.  Any other app (gkrellm, mozilla,
> gnome-system-monitor, etc) all "skip" (eg, fail to redraw screen bits)
> when the CPU usage approaches 100%.
> 
> I'll go file a bug report with bugzilla.

What's the bug number?

Cheers,
   Brent

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