Bug 167207 – xmms too busy when idle

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Bug 167207 - xmms too busy when idle

Summary:	xmms too busy when idle

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

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Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	xmms (Show other bugs)
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Version:	4
Hardware:	i386 Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Matthias Saou
QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Reported:	2005-08-31 11:10 EDT by Frank Ch. Eigler
Modified:	2007-11-30 17:11 EST (History)
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Last Closed:	2005-08-31 13:51:26 EDT
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Description Frank Ch. Eigler 2005-08-31 11:10:27 EDT

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050720 Fedora/1.0.6-1.1.fc4 Firefox/1.0.6

Description of problem:
When xmms is not playing music, just sitting around (paused or stopped), it nevertheless sucks up CPU.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xmms-1.2.10-16.i386

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Start xmms, but don't ask it to play anything.  Start up top or strace to monitor its activity.

Actual Results:  The sucker uses up lots of CPU (20% of an old P2-266), just sitting there.  strace indicates lots of activity (gettimeofday; checking on /tmp/xmms_USER, inter-thread idle chitchat.

Expected Results:  when idle, it should not use up lots of CPU.  it should not poll so frequently / heavily.

Additional info:

Maybe all this polling activity is also going on when the program is actually decoding/playing stuff.  Its CPU consumption is rather high.

Comment 1 John (J5) Palmieri 2005-08-31 12:02:58 EDT

Thank you for taking time to file a bug report. For fedora core 4 xmms was moved
to extras please file bugs for xmms against Fedora Extras.  Thank you.

Comment 2 Matthias Saou 2005-08-31 13:06:35 EDT

Hmmm, xmms 1.x is pretty much dead, which is one of the many reasons it has been
moved to Extras, and is kept there only for people who would have really missed
it if it had gone away completely.

This is typically an xmms design or coding issue that would need a non
negligeable amount of work to fix, so I doubt anyone will want to do it.

Have you tried beemp-media-player (bmp)? It's based on xmms, ported to gtk2, and
actively maintained, so even if it suffers from the same problem it has much
higher chances of getting fixed.

Comment 3 Frank Ch. Eigler 2005-08-31 13:51:26 EDT

just tried bmp.  it does not seem to suffer from the same problem,
so I somewhat reluctantly switched over.  (fwiw, gtk2-ness is of
zero value to me).

Comment 4 Matthias Saou 2005-09-01 03:36:36 EDT

Interesting to know (that bmp doesn't have this problem).
About the gtk2-ness being of zero value : If you're using Fedora Core 4, it
probably is since you'll probably already have gtk2 applications running, and no
gtk1 ones, so it will save loading an extra library. Anyway, until xmms2 at
least (which is in _very_ early stage, I tried it last week), bmp is the way to go.

I'll probably be closing this bug as WONTFIX if you don't mind too much.

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