Bug 417761 - artsd uses a lot of CPU cycles on KDE startup
Summary: artsd uses a lot of CPU cycles on KDE startup
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Status: CLOSED CANTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: arts
Version: 8
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Than Ngo
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-12-10 08:24 UTC by Philip Ashmore
Modified: 2008-02-19 15:36 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-02-19 15:36:52 UTC
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Description Philip Ashmore 2007-12-10 08:24:42 UTC 
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 20:10:38 UTC 
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 15:36:52 UTC 
Other that disabling pulseaudio, there's not much else to do. (marking CantFix).
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