Bug 417761 – artsd uses a lot of CPU cycles on KDE startup

Bug 417761 - artsd uses a lot of CPU cycles on KDE startup

Summary:	artsd uses a lot of CPU cycles on KDE startup

Status:	CLOSED CANTFIX

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Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	arts (Show other bugs)
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Version:	8
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Reported:	2007-12-10 03:24 EST by Philip Ashmore
Modified:	2008-02-19 10:36 EST (History)
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Last Closed:	2008-02-19 10:36:52 EST
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Description Philip Ashmore 2007-12-10 03:24:42 EST

Description of problem:
artsd uses 60% CPU on KDE startup

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
arts-1.5.8-4.fc8.i386

How reproducible:
9/10 times

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start KDE
2. See ksysguard panel applet display that the CPU is really busy
3. Open ksysguard to find the culprit
  
Actual results:
artsd is using a lot of CPU resources

Expected results:
artsd should use at most 5% of resources when idle

Additional info:
KDE is configured not to play a sound on KDE startup.
artsd gets restarted (I don't know how) periodically. Sometimes it resumes
chewing up CPU resources, sometimes not.

Comment 1 Rex Dieter 2007-12-10 15:10:38 EST

I'd venture this only occurs with pulseaudio enabled.

> artsd gets restarted (I don't know how) periodically
True, when/if the system needs audio events, it'll automatically (re)start.

You could consider disabling pulseaudio support in kde, via:
yum remove kde-settings-pulseaudio alsa-plugins-pulseaudio

Comment 2 Rex Dieter 2008-02-19 10:36:52 EST

Other that disabling pulseaudio, there's not much else to do. (marking CantFix).

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