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

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

Le jeudi 11 juin 2009 à 18:14 +0200, Eugen Dedu a écrit :
> 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

Easy to see: do you have your CPU running at 100% Eugen ?

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

Try seeing if it happens :
- only with audio
- only with audio & video
- only with some codec
and report it to Robert...
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