Bug#651187: rhythmbox: Playing music makes Xorg use all my CPU (in certain circumstances)

Roland Mas lolando at debian.org
Tue Dec 6 15:25:56 UTC 2011


Package: rhythmbox
Version: 2.90.1~git20111117.f101562-1
Severity: normal

If I keep a top(1) running in a terminal when I run Rhythmbox, I can see
that the Xorg process uses lots of CPU power (50% to 99% of my
admittedly slow CPU), the load average goes noticeably up, and my
session becomes sluggish when:

- Rhythmbox is playing music;
- and it's running its normal interface (not the reduced display mode
  accessible with Ctrl-D, not the "party mix" mode accessible with F11);
- and it's playing a local file or one coming from a DAAP share, but not
  an Internet radio.

Reducing the window or hiding it or switching to a virtual desktop where
it's not visible doesn't seem to change the behaviour, unlike changing
the RB interface style with either the menu or the keyboard shortcuts.

Thanks,

Roland.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-2-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages rhythmbox depends on:
ii  dbus                             1.4.16-1
ii  gnome-icon-theme                 3.2.1.2-1
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-base       0.10.35-1
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-good       0.10.30-2
ii  gstreamer0.10-x                  0.10.35-1
ii  libatk1.0-0                      2.2.0-2
ii  libc6                            2.13-21
ii  libcairo-gobject2                1.10.2-6.1
ii  libcairo2                        1.10.2-6.1
ii  libffi5                          3.0.10-3
ii  libfontconfig1                   2.8.0-3
ii  libfreetype6                     2.4.8-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0               2.24.0-1
ii  libgirepository-1.0-1            1.31.0-2
ii  libglib2.0-0                     2.30.2-4
ii  libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0  0.10.35-1
ii  libgstreamer0.10-0               0.10.35-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                       3.2.2-3
ii  libice6                          2:1.0.7-2
ii  libpango1.0-0                    1.29.4-2
ii  libpeas-1.0-0                    1.2.0-1
ii  librhythmbox-core4               2.90.1~git20111117.f101562-1
ii  libsm6                           2:1.2.0-2
ii  libsoup-gnome2.4-1               2.36.1-1
ii  libsoup2.4-1                     2.36.1-1
ii  libtotem-plparser17              2.32.6-1
ii  libxml2                          2.7.8.dfsg-5
ii  media-player-info                15-1
ii  python-gobject                   3.0.2-4
ii  python-gst0.10                   0.10.22-1
ii  rhythmbox-data                   2.90.1~git20111117.f101562-1
ii  zlib1g                           1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3

Versions of packages rhythmbox recommends:
ii  avahi-daemon                         0.6.30-5
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly           0.10.18-3+b1
ii  gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio             0.10.30-2
ii  gvfs-backends                        1.10.1-2
ii  notification-daemon                  0.7.3-1
ii  notify-osd [notification-daemon]     0.9.30-1
ii  rhythmbox-plugins                    2.90.1~git20111117.f101562-1
ii  xfce4-notifyd [notification-daemon]  0.2.2-1
ii  yelp                                 3.2.1+dfsg-1+b1

Versions of packages rhythmbox suggests:
ii  gnome-codec-install          <none>
ii  gnome-control-center         1:3.0.2-3
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad    0.10.22-3
ii  rhythmbox-plugin-cdrecorder  2.90.1~git20111117.f101562-1

-- no debconf information

-- 
Roland Mas

It would be hard to be deader without special training.
  -- in Theatre of Cruelty (Terry Pratchett)






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