Re: [Ekiga-list] ekiga pegs the CPU if started with the camera device turned off

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

Le mercredi 26 novembre 2008 à 08:31 +1100, Michael Ashley a écrit :
> Hi Matthias,
> 
> > the debug output is perfectly normal behaviour.  It is displayed on 
> > each frame that cannot be displayed  because there is no widget to 
> > show.
> 
> I don't know the details of the code, but one wonders whether it is 
> necessary to poll 30 times a second.
> 
> > However 50% CPU is not. Actually I cannot reproduce this,
> > when I have the widget unrealized and am getting this trace output, 
> > all I get is CPU load of 1-2%... 
> > Is there anything special you do? Just preview and deactivated call view?
> 
> The eee PC 901 has an inbuilt camera that can be deactivated to save 
> power. If I turn off the camera, and then start ekiga, the CPU load 
> stays at 50% until the call view panel is displayed.
> 
> Actually I just did some more tests and it isn't quite that simple! I 
> only get the CPU problem if, in a previous invocation of ekiga I was 
> displaying images from the camera. If I then deactivate the call 
> view frame, exit ekiga, turn off the camera, and restart ekiga, _then_ 
> I see the 30 errors/second and 50% CPU.

If there is no debug output, do you also reach 50% CPU in the same
situation ?
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