Hi,

I just wonder about CPU usage of amaroK and which direction development will have in the (near) future.
I just realized, after leaving amaroK for about an hour in the background without playing any track, that the fan of my notebook was on. I looked up CPU usage with top and found amaroK (still inactive) with about 4% of CPU usage (1GHz CPU). In my opinion this is far too much for an inactive app (that\'s even more than XMMS will take in playing mode - actually about 0.4%).

Are there any plans to improve this behaviour?

Marcel

P.S.: Still amaroK 1.2beta2 with gstreamer plugin

I agree. 1.2-beta3 constantly uses about 4% CPU on a 1.2GHz PIII, it shouldn\'t use anything near this when inactive/minimised (VU/GFX turned off). Hopefully just a bug that will be fixed. I\'m using gstreamer backend, too.

I\'ll look into this, minimised it should use 0%, there\'s no reason otherwise.

That\'s what I think. I tested it again with 1.2beta3.

Just after start minimized it\'s 0%,
then I played one song and minimized the windows again. After that track finished, amarokapp takes between 2% and 3% on my machine constantly (inactive again). Mem-usage stays as high as while playing BTW.

playing a lot of songs today, i stopped playing and minimized amarok. the CPU usage is 0.
this is with todays CVS version.
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18618 hds 9 0 39888 38m 27m S 0.0 10.3 0:13.36 amarokapp
18624 hds 8 0 39888 38m 27m S 0.0 10.3 0:00.00 amarokapp
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Fair enough, it already improved from beta2 to beta3 and in fact it is still beta, so there\'s still a lot of time to fix such behaviour. So you told me now it is fixed. Fine. I will wait for the next release (beta4 or rc1 or 1.2 final) and try it again.

I can confirm that the constant idle CPU usage only occurs _after_ files have been played. But it remains until I close amarok. (1.2-beta3). I have not tried the latest CVS. Oh, and btw: choosing an engine different than gstreamer makes it go away (such as the \'no engine\').

Post edited by: oyvind, at: 2005/01/14 13:20

So it is a problem with gstreamer. Maybe releasing the audio device would also help to fix this (I still would prefer that behaviour as dmix works really bad for my sound card).

OK, I tried it again with the CVS snapshot of Jan, 20th.
Still 4% in idle mode (after I played some music and the playlist ended).

I now filled a bug report about that.

Post edited by: marcel, at: 2005/01/21 17:35