Re: [Banshee-List] Updated MTP DAP patch available...

[Patrick van Staveren <trick vanstaveren us>]

Hi Brad,

That's really intense with the memory usage...I haven't seen this, but  
I'm on a box with 512 MB of ram which is usually all in use or fills  
up with cache quickly.  Are you sure that your ram isn't being filled  
by cache (possibly from transcoding?) rather than banshee's memory  
swelling?  I'd really like it if you could maybe post some stats on  
this...try running `ps -C banshee u` a few times while doing a  
transfer, and monitor the output of `top`.  top will show you how much  
memory is being actually used and how much is cache - if your cache  
explodes, it's not a big deal, that's just linux doing it's thang :)

As for the duplicate track handling - that's definitely a bug of  
mine...I don't believe anywhere I've blocked duplicate tracks.  I've  
run across that myself too many times and the only way around it is to  
delete the offending tracks from the player or to wipe the player.   
libgphoto2's internal vfs cannot handle duplicate track names, but  
allows you to transfer duplicates.  Go figure.  I'll add some sort of  
protection in the Sync :)

Also - abock just committed this code to CVS HEAD last night, so just  
grab a fresh checkout and you don't have to worry about patching :)   
Note - the CVS version requires you to explicitly set --enable-mtp for  
it to compile MTP support.

We now have a MTP component on bugzilla.gnome.org.  Don't hesitate to  
post your bug reports on there (because I'm sure you'll find more  
issues!)

Glad to hear it's working!

Cheers,

Patrick

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Patrick "Trick" van Staveren
Western Michigan University
Cell: 269.267.6008
http://trick.vanstaveren.us


----- Message from griffbrad gmail com ---------
    Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 22:55:22 -0500
    From: Brad Griffith <griffbrad gmail com>
Reply-To: banshee-list gnome org
 Subject: Re: [Banshee-List] Updated MTP DAP patch available...
      To: banshee-list gnome org


> Hey Patrick.  Sorry for not posting my results to the list, but I was
> able to get the patch to compile last week by changing the OnTrackAdded
> function.
>     I'm using the patch with a Creative Zen MicroPhoto and it generally
> works quite well.
>     There we two pretty big bugs that I noticed:
>     1) As tracks are being transferred to the device, my RAM usage goes
> up very quickly.  If I add any significant number of albums (10 or so)
> it will eat up all of my 1GB of RAM.  Exiting banshee frees the memory
> properly, though.
>     2) Adding a song that is already on the player will cause the player
> to no longer connect to banshee properly.  So, drag over song A,
> disconnect, restart banshee, drag over song A again, disconnect.  The
> next time I run banshee I can't connect to my device.  I reformatted the
> player a couple of times to confirm this and it happened consistently.
>
> I'll let you know if I notice any other problems, but I'm just happy to
> have something this easy to use working with this player.  The
> auto-transcoding and such is absolutely smooth.   Thanks again.
>
> Cheers,
> Brad
>
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