Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] netRhythmbox branch 0.4.4.99.4 released

[Colin Walters <walters debian org>]

On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 21:39, Mike Gratton wrote:

> I just downloaded, compiled and started using 0.4.4.99.5 on Debian/unstable.

Cool!

> It compiled fine after hitting it about the head a bit: configure was 
> looking for gstreamer-libs-0.6 but the Debian package installs the 
> pkgconf file "gstreamer-0.6.pc". I kluged a fix by symlinking 
> "gstreamer-libs-0.6.pc" to "gstreamer-0.6.pc" in /usr/lib/pkgconfig. I 
> guess the debian package needs to be fixed? I compiled against the usual 
> stuff (including ogg and vorbis) as well as XOSD, but not lirc.

Hmmm.  You shouldn't need to mess with the gstreamer configuration like
that.  Do you have gstreamer-core-libs-dev installed?

> The only complaints are that it seems to be hogging a *lot* of CPU - 
> even when not playing, and it seems to be leaking memory on a per-track 
> basis. At the start of the track, it is using 16M/8M RSS/shared, after 
> playing a three and a half minute track it gets up to around 22M/14M. 
> When a track finishes and the next starts, memory usgae drops back down 
> to 16M/8M.

Hm, I didn't notice this before.  The weird thing is that I can only
reproduce this on my PC, but not on my laptop.  Same codebase though. 
Very strange.

> I'll be hammering it for you. I typically use RB for 4+ hours per day, 
> and because 0.4 and 0.4.1 rarely crashed on me, it typically has had an 
> uptime of weeks. So I'll let you know if I run into any further 
> problems. Let me know if you want more details about the stuff above.

Cool, thanks.