i recently installed mp3blaster on (-current June 8th)
and whenever i play an mp3 it runns at 97% cpu (1.4ghz pentium M)
load averages: 0.94, 0.84, 1.39 06:17:00
35 processes: 1 running, 33 idle, 1 on processor
CPU states: 32.6% user, 0.0% nice, 65.9% system, 0.0% interrupt, 1.6% idle
Memory: Real: 33M/97M act/tot Free: 385M Swap: 0K/256M used/tot
PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE WAIT TIME CPU COMMAND
6965 sbr 64 0 5384K 3040K run - 1:41 97.36% mp3blaster
i thought perhaps it was just an issue with the release i was running, but
i since upgraded to -current June 17th. and have the same problem.
this is version 3.2.0p0 of mp3blaster which is what is included in release.
I found this bug report on the authors site
V3.0pre3 2001/01/11
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-Small bugfixes - thanks to all the people who reported them! It should
compile flawlessly in RedHat 7 now.
-On some FreeBSD boxes, mp3blaster consumed 100% cpu-time. This version
fixed this by using non-blocking I/O to the soundcard.
i also tried running ktrace for a bit, 10 seconds of running produced a
nice 550M file with endless repition of
1783 mp3blaster CALL gettimeofday(0x2a933058,0)
1783 mp3blaster RET gettimeofday 0
1783 mp3blaster CALL gettimeofday(0x2a933058,0)
1783 mp3blaster RET gettimeofday 0
1783 mp3blaster CALL gettimeofday(0x2a933058,0)
1783 mp3blaster RET gettimeofday 0
1783 mp3blaster CALL poll(0x82fa0000,0x1,0)
1783 mp3blaster RET poll 0
1783 mp3blaster CALL poll(0x82fa0000,0x1,0)
so it looks like some kind of poll'ing issue, im not the programming guru
id like to be so am not sure.
any ideas of what this could be caused by, does anyone else have this
problem? or am i the only person nutty enough to use mp3blaster.
thank you for your time,
sbr
