[slim] Re: 6.0 occassional high CPU usage for extended periods
I'm getting exactly this behaviour. Periodic very high CPU activity from slim.exe that lasts up to 20 minutes and stops the player. My library is about 25k songs. Having said that, although I'm trying to get it to use iTunes, I've not succeeded as yet, so I don't know if that is the issue, or not. Tourne Healy Wrote: Mine will peg out at 99% for 10-15 mins each time it does a rescan of the itunes library. Even if I've just quit the iTunes and made no changes (IE: updates the time stamp of the xml file). It jumps up to 99% and scans through the whole library again. Meanwhile while that is happening, more than half the time, the music will cut out the squeezebox will state Can't find slimserver. Sometimes it will come back on and play for 1-2 seconds and they go dead for another 2 minutes. After the CPU goes back down to normal levels, the music comes back on. This happens wired or wireless. I used to have it check for iTunes changes every hour, now I have it set to weeks to try and avoid that. This happened once in a while in the 5.x series but seem to happen now every time it detects an iTunes change. It's getting to the point when I can't even rely on the squeezebox for a party anymore. Very disappointing. Is this the norm for users with huge libraries of music from now on? -Healy On Apr 9, 2005, at 12:48 AM, Mark Bennett wrote: The library scanning is much more CPU intensive than it was before. My collection of ~6k songs takes about 6 or 7 minutes to scan on a P4, 3.4GHz with 1GB RAM. Scaling that up to your music library size and CPU speed and it seems about right. This will happen at startup the first time, but it shouldn't need to do it again unless you've added music. On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 23:35 -0700, Healy wrote: I've been having 99% CPU usage for long periods of time since switching to 6.0. Currently using the 4/7 nightly with the same issues. On start up it pegs at 99% CPU for about 75 mins. I have 26,000 songs on the server. I've removed all the plugins except for: Datetime Screensaver Rescan Music Library Shoutcast Save Playlist iTunes It still seems to peg out Server is AMD 1.6ghz w/ 1.0gb ram, Debian Linux Nothing else running except for sshd and basic init functions. On Mar 26, 2005, at 7:42 AM, Daryle A. Tilroe wrote: Daryle A. Tilroe wrote: Charles Stanton wrote: (We'll try this again). I am using the 3/23 nighly and from time to time on start-up, slim.exe will max out (96 - 99%) the CPU for 30 minutes or more before settling down. No new music has been added. I don't think it should be re-scanning. Generally it settles down within 5 minutes or so. The library is about 9K songs. The computer is PIII 933 MHz, 512 RAM, W2K Pro. It is dedicated to the slimserver and musicmagic, which is also running. I had something similar but possibly unrelated. For the last week and a half I have been running the compiled 3/14 nightly under WinXPProSP1. Tonight I noticed the service had gone rogue and was using all available cycles. This was after a week of uptime and nowhere near a rescan and nothing was even playing. I just killed the service and upgraded to 3/24. We shall see if it crops up again. OK It did it again and much faster (less than 36 hours); also I don't think I even fired up the player. I currently suspect the RSS plugin. I turned it off and will wait a few days and see. -- Tourne ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: 6.0 occassional high CPU usage for extended periods
I've been having 99% CPU usage for long periods of time since switching to 6.0. Currently using the 4/7 nightly with the same issues. On start up it pegs at 99% CPU for about 75 mins. I have 26,000 songs on the server. I've removed all the plugins except for: Datetime Screensaver Rescan Music Library Shoutcast Save Playlist iTunes It still seems to peg out Server is AMD 1.6ghz w/ 1.0gb ram, Debian Linux Nothing else running except for sshd and basic init functions. On Mar 26, 2005, at 7:42 AM, Daryle A. Tilroe wrote: Daryle A. Tilroe wrote: Charles Stanton wrote: (We'll try this again). I am using the 3/23 nighly and from time to time on start-up, slim.exe will max out (96 - 99%) the CPU for 30 minutes or more before settling down. No new music has been added. I don't think it should be re-scanning. Generally it settles down within 5 minutes or so. The library is about 9K songs. The computer is PIII 933 MHz, 512 RAM, W2K Pro. It is dedicated to the slimserver and musicmagic, which is also running. I had something similar but possibly unrelated. For the last week and a half I have been running the compiled 3/14 nightly under WinXPProSP1. Tonight I noticed the service had gone rogue and was using all available cycles. This was after a week of uptime and nowhere near a rescan and nothing was even playing. I just killed the service and upgraded to 3/24. We shall see if it crops up again. OK It did it again and much faster (less than 36 hours); also I don't think I even fired up the player. I currently suspect the RSS plugin. I turned it off and will wait a few days and see. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: 6.0 occassional high CPU usage for extended periods
The library scanning is much more CPU intensive than it was before. My collection of ~6k songs takes about 6 or 7 minutes to scan on a P4, 3.4GHz with 1GB RAM. Scaling that up to your music library size and CPU speed and it seems about right. This will happen at startup the first time, but it shouldn't need to do it again unless you've added music. On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 23:35 -0700, Healy wrote: I've been having 99% CPU usage for long periods of time since switching to 6.0. Currently using the 4/7 nightly with the same issues. On start up it pegs at 99% CPU for about 75 mins. I have 26,000 songs on the server. I've removed all the plugins except for: Datetime Screensaver Rescan Music Library Shoutcast Save Playlist iTunes It still seems to peg out Server is AMD 1.6ghz w/ 1.0gb ram, Debian Linux Nothing else running except for sshd and basic init functions. On Mar 26, 2005, at 7:42 AM, Daryle A. Tilroe wrote: Daryle A. Tilroe wrote: Charles Stanton wrote: (We'll try this again). I am using the 3/23 nighly and from time to time on start-up, slim.exe will max out (96 - 99%) the CPU for 30 minutes or more before settling down. No new music has been added. I don't think it should be re-scanning. Generally it settles down within 5 minutes or so. The library is about 9K songs. The computer is PIII 933 MHz, 512 RAM, W2K Pro. It is dedicated to the slimserver and musicmagic, which is also running. I had something similar but possibly unrelated. For the last week and a half I have been running the compiled 3/14 nightly under WinXPProSP1. Tonight I noticed the service had gone rogue and was using all available cycles. This was after a week of uptime and nowhere near a rescan and nothing was even playing. I just killed the service and upgraded to 3/24. We shall see if it crops up again. OK It did it again and much faster (less than 36 hours); also I don't think I even fired up the player. I currently suspect the RSS plugin. I turned it off and will wait a few days and see. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss -- The biggest problem encountered while trying to design a system that was completely foolproof, was, that people tended to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. (Douglas Adams) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: 6.0 occassional high CPU usage for extended periods
Quoting Healy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm currently doing the scan interval change to see if that fixes matters. The rescan will catch changes to itunes? I use iTunes exclusively. it should rescan any and all active import modes, plus folder scan if you have a music folder set. I've tried all three logs that you mention, so far I have not seen a common thread to focus on. d_itunes will show when the server detects any change in the xml file. that will maybe help you lock in on what might be changing. if you never see this message, then you might want to look at events that lead up to the itunes rescan that you have been seeing. -kdf ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.0 occassional high CPU usage for extended periods
I just came home from a trip out for a few hours. Both my players were switched off the whole time I was out. When I got back, neither was responding and the web interface was dead. Turned out the server was taking 100% cpuand had been doing for some time (judging by the stats). I killed it and restarted and everything is fine now. I don't use itunes, just regular files, it had no reason (that I know of) to be rescanning at that time. -- radish ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: 6.0 occassional high CPU usage for extended periods
Daryle A. Tilroe wrote: Charles Stanton wrote: (We'll try this again). I am using the 3/23 nighly and from time to time on start-up, slim.exe will max out (96 - 99%) the CPU for 30 minutes or more before settling down. No new music has been added. I don't think it should be re-scanning. Generally it settles down within 5 minutes or so. The library is about 9K songs. The computer is PIII 933 MHz, 512 RAM, W2K Pro. It is dedicated to the slimserver and musicmagic, which is also running. I had something similar but possibly unrelated. For the last week and a half I have been running the compiled 3/14 nightly under WinXPProSP1. Tonight I noticed the service had gone rogue and was using all available cycles. This was after a week of uptime and nowhere near a rescan and nothing was even playing. I just killed the service and upgraded to 3/24. We shall see if it crops up again. OK It did it again and much faster (less than 36 hours); also I don't think I even fired up the player. I currently suspect the RSS plugin. I turned it off and will wait a few days and see. -- Daryle A. Tilroe ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.0 occassional high CPU usage for extended periods
(We'll try this again). I am using the 3/23 nighly and from time to time on start-up, slim.exe will max out (96 - 99%) the CPU for 30 minutes or more before settling down. No new music has been added. I don't think it should be re-scanning. Generally it settles down within 5 minutes or so. The library is about 9K songs. The computer is PIII 933 MHz, 512 RAM, W2K Pro. It is dedicated to the slimserver and musicmagic, which is also running. Is this expected behaviour? Thx. On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 21:50:32 -0500, Charles Stanton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3/23 Nightly ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: 6.0 occassional high CPU usage for extended periods
Charles Stanton wrote: (We'll try this again). I am using the 3/23 nighly and from time to time on start-up, slim.exe will max out (96 - 99%) the CPU for 30 minutes or more before settling down. No new music has been added. I don't think it should be re-scanning. Generally it settles down within 5 minutes or so. The library is about 9K songs. The computer is PIII 933 MHz, 512 RAM, W2K Pro. It is dedicated to the slimserver and musicmagic, which is also running. I had something similar but possibly unrelated. For the last week and a half I have been running the compiled 3/14 nightly under WinXPProSP1. Tonight I noticed the service had gone rogue and was using all available cycles. This was after a week of uptime and nowhere near a rescan and nothing was even playing. I just killed the service and upgraded to 3/24. We shall see if it crops up again. -- Daryle A. Tilroe ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
