Hi, There is a known issue with gst-plugins blocking on small files, I think this is fixed in gst-plugins 0.8.6. If this is a different problem, could you make this xmms playlist file available if you haven't deleted yet? Thanks, Christophe Le mardi 30 novembre 2004 à 09:50 +0000, Gisli Ottarsson a écrit : > Thanks for the -d flag Christophe. Like Jonas I thought I had observed > a bad regression in song-import performance. I now think I have a clue > about what was happening in my case. > > By way of background, I have approximately 18Gb of .ogg files on a > server which I access from many computers in my home -- among them a > laptop on a slow wireless network. > > In the past, I have frequently had to re-read the library from the > laptop, because if I start Rhythmbox when the server is, for some > reason, not visible, Rhythmbox purges the songs from its records. > Reading the library used to take a while, but usually well below 1 > hour. > > Last week I noticed that this was taking a lot longer. I let the laptop > run overnight (ca. 10 hours). In the morning the CPU meter was still > pegged so I killed it. > > I ran with -d and I noticed that Rhythmbox got hung up on an xmms > playlist file which was sitting among the .ogg files. I removed the > xmms file and the library now loads in 15 minutes. > > Some closing observations: > > o The .xmms file has been there for a very long time. It may > contain some nonsense, but it has not bothered Rhythmbox before. > It is very possible that the .xmms was written by a client which > mounted the server disk differently and the .xmms may have > contained bad paths to the songs. > > o Although I stay current with debian/unstable, I can not give good > information about when the new behavior started. > > o If anything, Rhythmbox now imports my songs *faster* than it did > before. Perhaps the rogue .xmms file was slowing it down slightly. > > Hope this helps. > > Gisli > > > > > > On Sat, 2004-11-27 at 15:47 +0100, Christophe Fergeau wrote: > > Le samedi 27 novembre 2004 à 16:40 +0100, Jonas Bernoulli a écrit : > > > hello > > > > > > importing songs takes very long in rhythmbox. also i have noted that all > > > songs endup with three stars after the import. > > > > > > unfortunately i did not find this behaviour documented anywhere. > > > > > > (i should not that i wasn't able to use the help within the program, but > > > think that this documentation should be available over your webpage also) > > > > > > well anyway, what does rhytmbox do with the songs? > > > > What do you mean exactly? Do you mean « What does it do that takes such > > a long time when importing songs »? If that is your question, using > > rhythmbox -d should help to find out which songs are taking along time > > to import. Upgrading to gst-plugins 0.8.6 may help too. What do you mean > > by "a long time" btw (in terms of number of songs and time taken)? > > > > Cheers, > > > > Christophe > > _______________________________________________ > > rhythmbox-devel mailing list > > rhythmbox-devel gnome org > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel > > _______________________________________________ > rhythmbox-devel mailing list > rhythmbox-devel gnome org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel > >
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