XMMS CPU Usage

jthj · Posted: Mon Aug 19, 2002 5:29 pm Post subject: XMMS CPU Usage

I've been having a problem with XMMS where after playing a few tracks from my playlist averaging between 0 and 3 % cpu usage it will spike up to 20% at that point I can stop playback and it will stay at 20% untill I close xmms or if i skip a few tracks it will eventualy go back down to normal. It always spikes or drops at the begining of a track. I've searched and havent' seen anybody else with this problem. But I do have a friend using gentoo that does have the problem. Our systmes are very similar AMD Athlon Via chipset however I'm using a SB live he has some via onboard sound. so I dont' think it's audio drivers. I'm using KDE 3.0.2 and the OSS ouput plugin in XMMS however I also tried esound and had the same issue. I tend to think this issue is in the decoding of the mp3 not the output but I could be wrong. Any sugestions would be greatly appreciated.

dasalvagg · Apprentice Joined: 26 Jun 2002 Posts: 183 Location: NY

run from the konsole...are you getting errors? try playing some ogg files and see if produces the same results.

jthj · Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2002 8:31 pm Post subject:

I tried running from the console and didn't get any errors. This is what I got in the console
<Init> : Avifile CVS-020711-21:50-2.95.3
<Init> : Available CPU flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow
<Init> : 1210.91 MHz AMD Athlon(tm) Processor processor detected
<LDT_Keeper> : Installed fs segment: 0x40018000
I dont' have any ogg files all my music is mp3

AutoBot · l33t Joined: 22 Apr 2002 Posts: 968 Location: Usually Out

What sound driver are you using?
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jthj · Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2002 9:08 pm Post subject:

AutoBot · l33t Joined: 22 Apr 2002 Posts: 968 Location: Usually Out

Have you tried using mpg123 or any other player to see if you get similar results, perhaps it isn't xmms but your sound driver causing the odd cpu usage.
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jthj · Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2002 9:50 pm Post subject:

jthj · Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2002 9:55 pm Post subject:

Using alsa I experience the same problem also it is directly related to xmms as the cpu usage wont' drop untill I close xmms not just stoping playback so I really don't think it's a driver issue.

AutoBot · l33t Joined: 22 Apr 2002 Posts: 968 Location: Usually Out

I am not saying it isn't xmms, for me xmms locks up after 10 minutes of streaming shoutcast but if I switch to esd it doesn't lock up anymore....So xmms does indeed do strange things.
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Craigo · Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2002 10:18 pm Post subject:

What kernel are you using? Also what were you doing at the time? Normally related to whatever you are doing on the desktop etc.

-/Craigo/-

jthj · Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2002 10:27 pm Post subject:

easykill · Apprentice Joined: 07 Dec 2002 Posts: 230

bump because i'm getting this as well, doesn't seem to cause any problems, though. just annoying.

anybody figure out a solution?

i run X 4.3.0 with fluxbox, the gkrellmms plugin, kernel 2.4.20-r1 (gentoo-sources) OSS driver for Cmedia 8738