Package: amarok Version: 1.4.9.1-2 Followup-For: Bug #480211 I have the same problem over here, approx. 60 seconds, high load, no scripts running except the default.
I did a 'strace amarok' which generates a hugh load of output as amarok seems to call the same functions over and over again a few times a second. I'll paste the lines towards the end of the output. You need to repeat the first few lines approx 10.000 times to get the actual number: gettimeofday({1211458442, 463767}, NULL) = 0 select(14, [3 4 5 12 13], [], [], {0, 8260}) = 0 (Timeout) gettimeofday({1211458442, 479530}, NULL) = 0 waitpid(5547, 0xbfbb9308, WNOHANG) = 0 ioctl(5, FIONREAD, [0]) = 0 ioctl(3, FIONREAD, [0]) = 0 gettimeofday({1211458442, 480146}, NULL) = 0 select(14, [3 4 5 12 13], [], [], {0, 1881}) = 0 (Timeout) gettimeofday({1211458442, 483290}, NULL) = 0 waitpid(5547, 0xbfbb9308, WNOHANG) = 0 ioctl(5, FIONREAD, [0]) = 0 ioctl(3, FIONREAD, [0]) = 0 gettimeofday({1211458442, 483883}, NULL) = 0 select(14, [3 4 5 12 13], [], [], {0, 8144}) = 0 (Timeout) gettimeofday({1211458442, 499485}, NULL) = 0 waitpid(5547, 0xbfbb9308, WNOHANG) = 0 ioctl(5, FIONREAD, [0]) = 0 ioctl(3, FIONREAD, [0]) = 0 gettimeofday({1211458442, 500099}, NULL) = 0 select(14, [3 4 5 12 13], [], [], {0, 1928}) = 0 (Timeout) gettimeofday({1211458442, 503381}, NULL) = 0 waitpid(5547, 0xbfbb9308, WNOHANG) = 0 ioctl(5, FIONREAD, [0]) = 0 ioctl(3, FIONREAD, [0]) = 0 gettimeofday({1211458442, 503996}, NULL) = 0 select(14, [3 4 5 12 13], [], [], {0, 8031}) = 0 (Timeout) gettimeofday({1211458442, 519457}, NULL) = 0 waitpid(5547, 0xbfbb9308, WNOHANG) = 0 ioctl(5, FIONREAD, [0]) = 0 ioctl(3, FIONREAD, [0]) = 0 gettimeofday({1211458442, 520076}, NULL) = 0 select(14, [3 4 5 12 13], [], [], {0, 1951}) = 0 (Timeout) gettimeofday({1211458442, 523296}, NULL) = 0 waitpid(5547, 0xbfbb9308, WNOHANG) = 0 ioctl(5, FIONREAD, [0]) = 0 ioctl(3, FIONREAD, [0]) = 0 gettimeofday({1211458442, 523899}, NULL) = 0 select(14, [3 4 5 12 13], [], [], {0, 8128}) = 1 (in [5], left {0, 8128}) read(5, "STARTUP\n", 4096) = 8 select(6, [5], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 0 (Timeout) gettimeofday({1211458442, 526327}, NULL) = 0 ioctl(3, FIONREAD, [0]) = 0 gettimeofday({1211458442, 526619}, NULL) = 0 select(14, [3 4 5 12 13], [], [], {0, 5408}) = 0 (Timeout) gettimeofday({1211458442, 531234}, NULL) = 0 ioctl(3, FIONREAD, [0]) = 0 gettimeofday({1211458442, 531535}, NULL) = 0 select(14, [3 4 5 12 13], [], [], {0, 492}) = 0 (Timeout) gettimeofday({1211458442, 535165}, NULL) = 0 waitpid(5547, 0xbfbb9308, WNOHANG) = 0 ioctl(5, FIONREAD, [0]) = 0 ioctl(5, FIONREAD, [0]) = 0 ioctl(5, FIONREAD, [0]) = 0 close(5) = 0 close(11) = 0 close(12) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGCHLD, {SIG_DFL}, NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGPIPE, {SIG_DFL}, NULL, 8) = 0 write(3, "<\5\2\0\0\0\240\2+\0\1\0", 12) = 12 read(3, "\1\1x\0\0\0\0\0\10\0\200\2<# \10\20\5\266\277(\5\266\277"..., 32) = 32 shutdown(3, 2 /* send and receive */) = 0 close(3) = 0 write(4, "\1\v\1\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0008\22=\267", 16) = 16 close(4) = 0 exit_group(0) = ? Process 5545 detached -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22 (PREEMPT) Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages amarok depends on: ii amarok-common 1.4.9.1-2 architecture independent files for ii amarok-engine-xine 1.4.9.1-2 Xine engine for the Amarok audio p ii kdelibs4c2a 4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-4 core libraries and binaries for al ii libc6 2.7-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.3.0-4 GCC support library ii libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1 7.0.3-1 A free implementation of the OpenG ii libglib2.0-0 2.16.3-2 The GLib library of C routines ii libgpod3 0.6.0-5 a library to read and write songs ii libifp4 1.0.0.2-3 communicate with iRiver iFP audio ii libkarma0 0.0.6-3.1 Rio Karma access library [runtime ii libmtp7 0.2.6.1-2 Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) libr ii libmysqlclient15off 5.0.51a-6 MySQL database client library ii libnjb5 2.2.5-4.2 Creative Labs Nomad Jukebox librar ii libpq5 8.3.1-2+b1 PostgreSQL C client library ii libqt3-mt 3:3.3.8b-5 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v ii libruby1.8 1.8.6.114-2 Libraries necessary to run Ruby 1. ii libsdl1.2debian 1.2.13-2 Simple DirectMedia Layer ii libsqlite3-0 3.5.8-4 SQLite 3 shared library ii libstdc++6 4.3.0-4 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libtag1c2a 1.4-8.1 TagLib Audio Meta-Data Library ii libtunepimp5 0.5.3-7 MusicBrainz tagging library ii libusb-0.1-4 2:0.1.12-11 userspace USB programming library ii libvisual-0.4-0 0.4.0-2.1 Audio visualization framework ii unzip 5.52-11 De-archiver for .zip files Versions of packages amarok recommends: pn amarok-konqsidebar <none> (no description available) ii kdemultimedia-kio-plugins 4:3.5.9-1 enables the browsing of audio CDs -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]