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> Hi Dee, > > D Webb wrote: > > How does "top" look? > > Are you > > using a kernel that actually uses both processors and you see this with > > hitting > > "1" while top is running? > > yes, the 2 processors are active and Ekiga takes over one of them when the > camera is connected: > > #~ top > (...) > Cpu0 : 5.6%us, 1.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 93.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.3%si, 0.0%st > Cpu1 : 0.3%us, 99.7%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st > (...) > 21377 david 20 0 86224 29m 19m R 98 1.5 0:08.80 ekiga > (...) > > I'm using Debian Lenny's latest kernel: > > #~ uname -rsv > Linux 2.6.24-1-686 #1 SMP Thu Mar 27 17:45:04 UTC 2008 > > I guess this can be a problem in the uvcvideo driver, but it seems to work ok > with other apps... any suggestions on how to further debug this? > > Thanks for your comments, Hi again, I can't think of anything more right now. It seems we have similar SMP machines and kernels. The memory problem on older machines with less memory was one I knew about because I have seen it reproducibly. I also know that adding swap made it go away, again, on a much older machine. I have had problems with Ekiga crashing when I try to make a call, but I have left it on for days at a time without making a call, but with my webcam installed and it looked to keep grabbing frames in a steady stream for the entire time. My webcam is a USB Philips ToUcam using the pre-packaged kernel driver. I have heard of some webcam problems regarding V4L2 with Ekiga that disappeared once switched to V4L (maybe vice versa as well). I guess you could try changing the webcam settings in Ekiga and see what happens. Dee Get in touch in an instant. Get Windows Live Messenger now. |