Re: [Ekiga-list] ekiga 3.2.1 taking too much cpu

[Eugen Dedu <Eugen Dedu pu-pm univ-fcomte fr>]

Damien Sandras wrote:
> Le jeudi 11 juin 2009 à 11:37 -0400, H.S. a écrit :
> > Hello,
> >
> > After a recent upgrade we got new Ekiga in Debian Testing (Ekiga
> > 3.2.1~git20090515.9d0263-1). Wonderful, since the last version (3.2.0)
> > was segfaulting (due to ptlib I think). But now this new version is
> > keeping the CPU busy and the audio is choppy. It used to work
> > wonderfully in an earlier version (2.0.12 IIRC).
> >
> > The problem is usually during a call. CPU usage jumps to 20~50% and the
> > audio becomes broken and choppy. It appears as though Ekiga is using up
> > too many system resources.
> >
> > I posted on Debian user mailing list and some have suggested I compile
> > the newest version. Before I do anything like that, I am hoping there
> > might be a fix for this problem, or at least an explanation.
> >
> > Anybody else see this problem? I am using the new KDE with pulseaudio.
> > Also, I have these installed:
> > $> dpkg -l ekiga libasou* *opal* libpt* | grep ^i | gawk '{print $2 " " $3}'
> > ekiga 3.2.1~git20090515.9d0263-1
> > libasound2 1.0.20-2
> > libasound2-dev 1.0.20-2
> > libasound2-plugins 1.0.19-2
> > libopal-2.2 2.2.11~dfsg1-4
> > libopal3.6.1 3.6.1~dfsg-1
> > libpt-1.10.10 1.10.10-3
> > libpt-1.10.10-plugins-alsa 1.10.10-3
> > libpt-1.10.10-plugins-v4l 1.10.10-3
> > libpt2.6.1 2.6.1-2
> > libpt2.6.1-plugins-alsa 2.6.1-2
> > libpt2.6.1-plugins-v4l2 2.6.1-2
> > libpth20 2.0.7-12
> > libpthread-stubs0 0.1-2
> > libpthread-stubs0-dev 0.1-2
>
> We never heard of such a problem before...

Seems related: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=581019

I noticed also the audio choppy (i.e. each 5-15 sec, I do not hear 
anything for 1 sec.)

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Eugen