On 2007-01-04, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Throughout this thread many people have commented on audacious
>>> being a resource hog of monumental proportions. Every single
>>> one of them is wrong and this myth really needs to be
>>> debunked. Here's why:
>>
>> I agree. I'm still using xmms so I can compare. Here are few
>> lines from top (displaying a Mem window - 'Shift+g 3'). Both
>> players were playing same mp3 file.
>>
>> PID %MEM VIRT SWAP RES CODE DATA SHR nFLT nDRT S PR %CPU COMMAND
>> 8810 10.9 172m 62m 109m 1620 108m 9104 779 0 S 15 0.0 X
>> 11170 9.7 308m 210m 97m 80 129m 19m 897 0 S 15 0.0 firefox-bin
>> 7750 2.0 164m 143m 20m 480 41m 11m 117 0 R 15 0.0 audacious
>> 7810 1.8 49940 30m 17m 1524 9m 5016 72 0 S 15 0.0 emacs
>> 7739 1.1 149m 138m 11m 984 59m 7816 49 0 R 15 0.0 xmms
[I attempted un-wrap the TOP output]
> Ah, a real comparison - I don;t have xmms anymore so couldn't
> do the same in my post. These numbers are interesting,
> although audacious is using more resident memory, xmms is
> using way much more for DATA.
>
> IMHO audacious is using a perfectly reasonable amount of resources,
> considering what it's being asked to do - decode and play an mp3 file
> which is probably about 5M or so.
Playing an mp3 file doesn't actually require much memory:
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
3608 grante 15 0 1936 748 484 S 0.7 0.0 0:00.19 mpg123
All that memory is for GUI bells and whistles. The memory
required to play an MP3 file is measured in KB not in MB.
> Incidentally, I just did a similar comparison on my machine between
> audacious and amarok, and found that amarok consistently uses at least
> 2.2 times the amount of memory that audacious does. And I've never
> heard anyone call amarok a resource-hog.
Amarok is a resource-hog. ;)
>> Although audacious eats twice more resident memory than xmms, I think
>> it's not that bad to call it 'resource hog'. You can see real
>> resource hogs on the first two lines. :-)
Very true, but there is little alternative to X and Firefox.
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