[Sussex] Curious problem - sound related ???

[John D.]

On Wednesday 19 April 2006 22:33, Stephen Williams wrote:
> John,
>
> Here are some typical values from my install (Gentoo - what else)
> running amaroK. These are a few values sampled at 1 sec intervals. Note
> the resource usage is a lot less than yours.
>
>                        CPU% MEM%
>
> 13379     1   1:05.93  7.9  4.3  15   0 S  139m  96m  42m 1000 amarokapp
> 13379     1   1:06.01  7.9  4.3  16   0 R  139m  96m  42m 1000 amarokapp
> 13379     1   1:06.09  7.9  4.3  16   0 S  139m  96m  42m 1000 amarokapp
> 13379     1   1:06.16  6.9  4.3  15   0 S  139m  96m  42m 1000 amarokapp
> 13379     1   1:06.24  7.9  4.3  16   0 S  139m  96m  42m 1000 amarokapp
> 13379     1   1:06.32  7.9  4.3  16   0 S  139m  96m  42m 1000 amarokapp
> 13379     1   1:06.41  8.9  4.3  16   0 R  139m  96m  42m 1000 amarokapp
> 13379     1   1:06.52 10.9  4.3  15   0 S  139m  96m  42m 1000 amarokapp
> 13379     1   1:06.61  8.9  4.3  16   0 R  139m  96m  42m 1000 amarokapp
> 13379     1   1:06.69  7.9  4.3  16   0 S  139m  96m  42m 1000 amarokapp
>
> CPU rarely goes above 10% and memory rarely exceeds 5%. No skipping at
> all. A few thoughts occur:
>
> 1. Try running amaroK using the Xine engine as opposed to the arts
> engine - see if there's a difference.
>
> 2. You could run artswrapper suid, but this is a security risk.
>
> 3. Otherwise there mat be some problem with memory management. Something
> wrong with they way your amaroK is compiled?
Hum? 

Well I have Xine installed, but Xine engine ? I currently can't find anything 
like that mentioned for either the app, kde or in the main mandriva config 
windows.

Damn! and I sure I've seen it mentioned somewhere.

regards

John D.