replacing XMMS

[Samuel Flory]

Trond Danielsen wrote:
> Tony Grant wrote:
> 
>> Thanks to pointers in this thread I managed to get rhythmbox running.
>>
>> It uses 25% CPU on my Epia-M10000...
>>
>> It is huge - both onscreen and in RAM. It takes about 3x the screen real
>> estate that iTunes (which is too big) takes in reduced mode.
>>
>> Why would you want to replace xmms with a program like that? Did I say
>> that it crashes?
>>
>> When it gets slim and fast then it might have a chance but for the
>> moment this is alpha quality software.
>>
>> 0.02€
>>
>> Tony Grant
>>
> I'm running rhythmbox, and accorting to "top", it only uses 0.7% and 
> less when running minimized to the notification area, where is uses less 
>  than 0.5 %.
> 
> (I have some problems to, but cpu-usage and size is none of them...)
> 

   On my system it uses 33% of memory after a day of use:
top - 11:05:46 up 22:15, 15 users,  load average: 0.27, 0.27, 0.13
Tasks:  95 total,   1 running,  94 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s): 10.3% us,  1.3% sy,  0.0% ni, 88.1% id,  0.3% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.0% si
Mem:    516724k total,   506092k used,    10632k free,    18140k buffers
Swap:  1052216k total,    61544k used,   990672k free,   100404k cached

   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
  3114 root      15   0 81020  19m  53m S  6.6  3.8   9:12.81 X
  3254 sflory    15   0 30560  10m  26m S  0.7  2.1   0:25.02 kdeinit
  3267 sflory    15   0 29380 9312  25m S  0.7  1.8   0:00.97 kdeinit
  3657 sflory    15   0  234m 166m  20m S  0.7 33.1   8:55.90 rhythmbox


   Which seems to indicate it's got a massive leak as this it after a 
few minutes:

Cpu(s):  4.3% us,  1.0% sy,  0.0% ni, 94.7% id,  0.0% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.0% si
Mem:    516724k total,   426024k used,    90700k free,    25216k buffers
Swap:  1052216k total,    41064k used,  1011152k free,   168916k cached

   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
  3643 sflory    15   0  196m  86m  36m S  0.3 17.2  12:59.52 mozilla-bin
  3114 root      15   0 81132  19m  53m S  0.7  3.8   9:23.38 X
26100 sflory    15   0 82396  15m  20m S  0.7  3.0   0:05.70 rhythmbox


   Heck even Mozilla and OO aren't that bad!!

Cpu(s): 14.0% us,  1.0% sy,  0.0% ni, 85.0% id,  0.0% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.0% si
Mem:    516724k total,   511484k used,     5240k free,    24236k buffers
Swap:  1052216k total,    41064k used,  1011152k free,   209976k cached

   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
26156 sflory    15   0  188m  87m 104m S  0.0 17.4   0:15.06 soffice.bin
  3643 sflory    15   0  196m  86m  36m S  0.0 17.2  13:08.45 mozilla-bin
  3114 root      15   0 81164  19m  53m S 10.6  3.9   9:35.22 X
26145 sflory    15   0 56172  13m  20m S  0.7  2.7   0:00.81 xmms

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Merely hardware that other people don't want.
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