Banshee and high CPU use in 11.4

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Hi there,

I’m using OpenSuse 11.4, and I was wondering if anyone else has noticed consistent high CPU utilization with banshee? By high CPU use I mean, when the application is running (whether it’s idle, playing music, or scanning) CPU use on my machine is almost consistently at 100% (one core pegged).

Scanning my music library took hours … like 3-4 hours to scan 9500 songs, and banshee was the only application running on my machine.

Rhythymbox doesn’t suffer the same fate, scanning the same library took 5 minutes and CPU busy is less than 2% when it’s running or playing music.

I’m running banshee 1.9.3, and I’d rather use it vs Rhythmbox.

Any help or pointers appreciated (but please no flames about mono, etc)!

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No problem here

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Interesting, thanks caf.

Is there some sort of ‘debug’ mode that I can run banshee in, or would it be worth running an strace on the banshee process to determine what it’s spinning on? Obviously I’ve mis-configured something, or I’ve got a missing package …

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Sounds like you are answering your own question. Is your banshee from the OSS repo or have you added other repos that may be being used?

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It’s from the OSS repo, not the banshee one …

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Please post your repo list

zypper lr -d

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okay …

| Alias | Name | Enabled | Refresh | Priority | Type | URI | Service

—±---------------------------------±-----------------------------------±--------±--------±---------±-------±------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------±-------
1 | Latest_Stable_LibreOffice_(OBS) | Latest Stable LibreOffice (OBS) | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /repositories/LibreOffice:/Stable/openSUSE_11.4 |
2 | SUMF_(obs) | SUMF (obs) | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /repositories/home:/lemmy04:/profilemanagement/openSUSE_11.4 |
3 | Subpixel_Smoothing_Repository | Subpixel Smoothing Repository | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /repositories/home:/muzlocker/openSUSE_11.4 |
4 | Updates-for-openSUSE-11.4-11.4-0 | Updates for openSUSE 11.4 11.4-0 | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /update/11.4 |
5 | download.nvidia.com-opensuse | NVIDIA Repository | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | ftp://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/11.4/ |
6 | download.opensuse.org-Apps | openSUSE BuildService - GNOME:Apps | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /repositories/GNOME:/Apps/openSUSE_11.4 |
7 | download.opensuse.org-standard | Main Repository (Contrib) | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /repositories/openSUSE:/11.4:/Contrib/standard |
8 | ftp.uni-erlangen.de-suse | Packman Repository | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /pub/mirrors/packman/suse/openSUSE_11.4/ |
9 | openSUSE-11.4-11.4-0 | openSUSE-11.4-11.4-0 | Yes | No | 99 | yast2 | cd:///?devices=/dev/disk/by-id/usb-TSSTcorp_CDDVDW_SE-S084D_0Z468K_O-0:0,/dev/sr0 |
10 | opensuse-guide.org-repo | libdvdcss repository | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://opensuse-guide.org/repo/11.4/ |
11 | repo-debug | openSUSE-11.4-Debug | No | Yes | 99 | NONE | Index of /debug/distribution/11.4/repo/oss |
12 | repo-debug-update | openSUSE-11.4-Update-Debug | No | Yes | 99 | NONE | Index of /debug/update/11.4 |
13 | repo-non-oss | openSUSE-11.4-Non-Oss | Yes | Yes | 99 | yast2 | Index of /distribution/11.4/repo/non-oss |
14 | repo-oss | openSUSE-11.4-Oss | Yes | Yes | 99 | yast2 | Index of /distribution/11.4/repo/oss |
15 | repo-source | openSUSE-11.4-Source | No | Yes | 99 | NONE | Index of /source/distribution/11.4/repo/oss |

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Probably why mine is ok and yours isn’t.

Or can you be absolutely certain that banshee didn’t work from default install + packman (multi-media)

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So what should I delete?

running an strace on the PID, I get this:
read(5, 0xb5bcc4, 4096) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
poll({fd=6, events=POLLIN}, {fd=5, events=POLLIN}, {fd=12, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=17, events=POLLIN}, {fd=3, events=POLLIN}, {fd=19, events=POLLIN}, {fd=20, events=POLLIN}, {fd=21, events=POLLIN}], 8, 0) = 0 (Timeout)
read(5, 0xb5bcc4, 4096) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
poll({fd=6, events=POLLIN}, {fd=5, events=POLLIN}, {fd=12, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=17, events=POLLIN}, {fd=3, events=POLLIN}, {fd=19, events=POLLIN}, {fd=20, events=POLLIN}, {fd=21, events=POLLIN}], 8, 0^C) = 0 (Timeout)

scrolling really fast past the screen … And yes, this was something that was going on with just the default install + packman.

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Create a new user
Start banshee, but don’t give it a media dir to load
Place some music files in the /home/username/Music
And try playing them

I have to sleep now :smiley: