Subject: kern/18001: xmms %cpu lies
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: None <mrg@redhat.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 08/03/2002 01:07:47
>Number: 18001
>Category: kern
>Synopsis: xmms %cpu lies
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: high
>Responsible: kern-bug-people
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Tue Aug 20 01:40:00 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: matthew green
>Release: NetBSD 1.6E
>Organization:
people's front against (bozotic) www (softwar foundation)
>Environment:
System: NetBSD fish-dances.eterna.com.au 1.6E NetBSD 1.6E (_fish_) #113: Wed Jul 31 02:20:21 EST 2002 mrg@fish-dances.eterna.com.au:/var/_fish_ i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:
when running 'xmms' from pkgsrc, %CPU observed from ps or top or
systat ps is almost certainly wrong. at first, it appears to use
CPU, but the %CPU drops rapdily to 0.0% or occasionally 0.5% on my
system (celeron 400mhz laptop.) observing the accumulated time for
the process shows that it is really using about 12% of my CPU. ie
after playing for 8 hours, it has accumulated about an hour of CPU.
>How-To-Repeat:
install xmms on -current and attempt to see how much cpu it takes
compared to a cheaper (non graphical) mp3 player.
"pkg_info xmms" gives:
[ ... ]
Requires:
Mesa>=3.2.1
esound>=0.2.18
glib>=1.2.8
glut-3.4.2
gtk+>=1.2.8
libaudiofile>=0.2.1
libmikmod>=3.1.9
libogg>=1.0.0.7
libvorbis>=1.0.0.7
libxml>=1.8.11
pth-syscall>=1.4.1
[ ... ]
>Fix:
not provided.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: