[plug] XMMS gobbling cpu

[Richard Meyer]

On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 23:31 +0800, Peter F Bradshaw wrote:
> 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

I had tried that - I killed X and restartedit and xmms, which was
sitting basically dead (not playing - no playlists, even), and it was
interfering with my browsing by pushing CPU util up to 100%
periodically. A few minutes ago I killed it with a "kill -9 pid" and the
did your killall recipe, and restarted - but it's still consuming 4-7%
doing nothing - i have no idea why it's doing this - the release is
1.2.10

Aaahh I sort of remember, now I did decide to skin it with a new look -
(which I have since removed), and the problems seem to have started
round about the same time. It even hiccups, farts and stutters, and runs
at 100% when playing ogg files from the local hd - 

Ok - this is what I've done and it seems to work - I killed it and
deleted the ~/.xmms dir and restarted, and now it's using .7% while
playing music - 0% while not doing anything.


Thanks for talking to me, just formulating my thoughts pointed me in a
direction which helped me to solve it.

Anybody else have funnies when skinning xmms?
> 
> 
> >
> > It's driving me mad since my last attempt with Amarok wasn't that great
> > - amarok crashed often and early ....
> >
> 
> Cheers

-- 
Richard Meyer <meyerri at westnet.com.au>
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