From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 4 11:49:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from evil.2y.net (port-10-109.adsl.one.net [207.78.254.109]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E102737B865; Sat, 4 Mar 2000 11:49:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cokane@evil.2y.net) Received: (from cokane@localhost) by evil.2y.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA17218; Sat, 4 Mar 2000 14:52:08 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cokane) Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 14:52:08 -0500 From: Coleman Kane To: Michael Hohmuth Cc: John Reynolds~ , wsanborn@uswest.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xmms 1.0.1 uses 95% cpu Message-ID: <20000304145208.A17196@evil.2y.net> References: <20000223215739.B326@marder-1> <38BE3C3C.17337.42ADED6@localhost> <14526.45359.533982.635973@hip186.ch.intel.com> <87itz4q5hn.fsf@olymp.sax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <87itz4q5hn.fsf@olymp.sax.de>; from hohmuth@innocent.com on Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 06:55:06AM -0500 X-Vim: vim:tw=70:ts=4:sw=4 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I noticed this too, I have found that it chews more CPU when not playing music! It uses about 96% cpu on my box when stopped or paused, compared to 83% when playing audio! --cokane Michael Hohmuth had the audacity to say: > [ I have missed the beginning of the thread -- I hope I do not miss > the point completely. ] > > John Reynolds~ writes: > > > which version of xmms? 0.9.5.1 is the one I've reverted to, but the latest one > > in the ports tree, 1.0.1, sucks even worse for performance. > > > > With 0.9.5.1 the scope and volume controls update and "respond" normally to > > mouse events, etc. It just chews the crap out of CPU. With 1.0.1, the scope > > updates about once per second and the volume/seek controls are completely > > unresponsive (just as was mentioned in a previous posting on this topic). > > I believe that you are experiencing a driver problem: XMMS 1.0 uses > select() or poll() which some sound drivers do not implement. > > I fixed this particular problem by implementing poll() for the > ES1370/ES1371 PCI driver in FreeBSD-STABLE (used by the Soundblaster > AudioPCI 128, for example). See bug report kern/16709 for my patch. > > > Does 4.0 suffer this problem too? > > I have no idea. 4.0 has a new, different sound driver. > > Michael > -- > hohmuth@innocent.com, hohmuth@sax.de > http://www.sax.de/~hohmuth/ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message