[plug] XMMS gobbling cpu

[Peter F Bradshaw]

Hi Richard;

On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Richard Meyer wrote:

> Hi people,
>
> Since I reported the problem where X appeared to be looping, I have been
> keeping an eye on my machine and I notice that XMMS seems to be
> misbehaving. Just starting it up and leaving it alone - not playing
> anything, it consumes 5-15% of my cpu (as shown by "top"). Anybody else
> using XMMS, who is seeing this sort of behaviour?
>
> I only started keeping a beady eye on XMMS since yesterday when it
> started consuming 100% CPU sporadically - so bad that it would start
> hicupping in what it was playing (ogg encoded CD's, which it played
> perfectly the previous day). Anybody notice this misbehaviour as well?

XMMS has a bit of a problem if the source is across the net (as apposed to
a local file). In normal operation XMMS forks a number of processes. In
the event of a network problem these processes may not die. In the past
I've found that these "rogue" processes cause problems similar to the
ones you describe. Try exiting XMMS and then (in a shell window):

$ killall -9 xmms


>
> It's driving me mad since my last attempt with Amarok wasn't that great
> - amarok crashed often and early ....
>

Cheers

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