media-sound/audacious-2.4_beta2 is using an inordinate amount of CPU time on my machine during audio playback. When no sound is playing, CPU usage is nominal, but once I start playing an audio file, CPU usage goes to 50-75% of one CPU (on a Core i7 920). I tested with both mp3 and ogg files and it happens with both. audacious 2.3 does not have this issue. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install media-sound/audacious-2.4_beta2 2. Play an mp3 or ogg 3. Notice CPU usage over 50% Actual Results: audacious uses far too much CPU (50-75%) during audio playback Expected Results: audacious should use much less CPU (< 15%)
It looks like this only happens for the first few minutes after you start playing audio. After about 4 minutes when audacious has advanced through a few songs, the CPU usage become nominal again (4%). Once I stop playback and then start it again, the CPU usage goes back up.
Ok, have you searched for an upstream bug report about this issue? Michael
Does not concern the ebuild but the software; should be filed upstream. Missing elementary information like what output plugin was in use. Please address this when you refile at the upstream tracker, which is linked for your convenience in the URL field.
(In reply to comment #1) same here, On my system, audacious could waste up to 60% cpu when switch between songs, I think this happens on update a current stable version 2.4.0 **My useflags, media-sound/audacious-2.4.0 USE="nls session sse2" media-plugins/audacious-plugins-2.4.0 USE="aac alsa flac gnome midi mp3 nls sse2 vorbis" **My emerge --info Portage 2.1.8.3 (default/linux/x86/10.0, gcc-4.3.1, glibc-2.11.2-r3, 2.6.34-gentoo-r1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.34-gentoo-r1-i686-Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_4_CPU_2.66GHz-with-gentoo-1.12.14 Timestamp of tree: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 13:15:03 +0000 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.1_p7 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11 dev-lang/python: 2.6.5-r3, 3.1.2-r4 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.1-r2 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.14-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.3-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.65-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.3.1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.10 sys-devel/make: 3.81-r2 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.30-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA dlj-1.1 RTCW-ETEULA ut2003 AdobeFlash-10 AdobeFlash-10.1" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -mmmx -msse -msse2 -m32" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/lib/fax /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/spool/fax/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/eselect/postgresql /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -mmmx -msse -msse2 -m32" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--load-average=4 -j" FEATURES="assume-digests ccache collision-protect distcc distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.wh2.tu-dresden.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo " LANG="en_US.iso88591" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="en es es_ES" MAKEOPTS="-j11" PKGDIR="/usr/local/portage/binpackages" PORTAGE_COMPRESS="lzma" PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS="-9" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="acpi alsa apic berkdb ccache cli cracklib cups custom-cflags custom-optimization cxx dbus doc gdbm gnome gpm gtk hal iconv mmx mmxext modules mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nvidia opengl openmp pcre perl pppd python readline session sse sse2 ssl sysfs tcpd threads unicode x86 xorg xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ens1371" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en es es_ES" PHP_TARGETS="php5-2" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" SANE_BACKENDS="epson2" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
(In reply to comment #3) > Does not concern the ebuild but the software; should be filed upstream. Missing > elementary information like what output plugin was in use. Please address this > when you refile at the upstream tracker, which is linked for your convenience > in the URL field. > From http://jira.atheme.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa "Please note that we do not want bug reports concerning distribution packages from anyone other than their respective maintainers. "
(In reply to comment #5) > (In reply to comment #3) > > Does not concern the ebuild but the software; should be filed upstream. Missing > > elementary information like what output plugin was in use. Please address this > > when you refile at the upstream tracker, which is linked for your convenience > > in the URL field. > > > From http://jira.atheme.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa > "Please note that we do not want bug reports concerning distribution packages > from anyone other than their respective maintainers. " > For some reason, this particular maintainer thinks that all bugs should be filed upstream if it's not an OBVIOUS problem in the ebuild, even though it could well be because of the way that it's being build on Gentoo. It's stupid and myopic and is the sort of thing that would turn someone off to opening bugs forever (or worst yet, make someone stop using Gentoo). IMO, it makes perfect sense to have a bug open in Gentoo's bugzilla which is not closed until the issue is fixed, even if it is an upstream bug. Reopening.
Closing. I am an upstream Audacious developer and I am telling you to file in JIRA. You are welcome to check the About dialog or the commit logs on hg.atheme.org if you require further evidence before you are willing to follow the instructions that I have provided you with. Please note that personal attacks, whether you attempt to veil them or not, are of much less use in getting the issue resolved than the details you have been asked for.
As one of the administrators of Atheme.org, Gentoo is one of the few distributions where bugs may be filed directly to our bug tracker for Audacious-related issues; Tony is known for not adulterating Audacious' packages. Kindly do please listen to his request to report this issue on JIRA.
Supposedly it's a problem with ALSA's resampling. http://jira.atheme.org/browse/AUD-275
It is a Dmix timing bug in ALSA; a workaround is in 2.4.2 which is in the portage tree. As you see reporting bugs upstream works, that is why I ask people to do it.
Updating information & closing.
