Hello all,
I'm a bit of a linux noob so hopefully you guys and gals can help me out

First off, I'm running Kubuntu 6.06 and Amarok 1.3.9.

Amarok was running fine for the past month but yesterday it started causing problems for me.
Whenever I would run Amarok, my Xorg process would spike to ~100% CPU usage causing my computer to go very slow. Xorg would only go to 100% when the Amarok window was actually open, if I minimized Amarok so it was in the "system tray" then Xorg would go back to its normal 1-5% and everything would be fine. I have tried using Amarok versions 1.3.9 as well as the newest 1.4.2 and both have this same problem. I have not found any other application that causes this problem.

All of my music is stored on a windows server and im using samba over the network to mount my music drive, however I don't believe that is the problem. If i go into ~/.kde/share/amarok and remove the music database files so Amarok has to rebuild the collection it rebuilds fine and after rebuilding the collection the CPU goes to 100% usage from Xorg.

I saw another post (http://amarok.kde.org/forum/index.php/t ... 230.0.html) that looks like the same problem but a solution was never posted (Unless it was that the person switched from Fluxbox to KDE). If anyone could give me some advice or a solution that would be great

Thanks for the help,
Mike


Edit: Oh yea I am using the xine engine for Amarok

probably looks like you fiddled with the database setting of the music collection...I once changed my databse from Sqlite to Mysql and faced a similar kind of problem ...so just give it  a try 

Hey thanks for the reply,
Unfortunately i havent played around with the database settings at all,
I just tried changing from sqlite to mysql but amarok still caused Xorg to use 100% cpu cycles.

Thanks though!