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 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 have never seen that.  But there are some bugs which appear on some 
machines, and on others do not (even if both use debian and the same 
binaries for ex.)

Eugen