On Sun, 21 Aug 2016 10:42:47 +0200 Massimo Maiurana <maiur...@gmail.com> said:

> Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) ha scritto il 21/08/2016 alle 01:42:
> > On Sat, 20 Aug 2016 19:04:44 +0200 Massimo Maiurana <maiur...@gmail.com>
> > said:
> >
> >> Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) ha scritto il 20/08/2016 alle 14:17:
> >>> On Sat, 20 Aug 2016 09:41:00 +0200 Massimo Maiurana <maiur...@gmail.com>
> >>> said:
> >>>
> >>>> There is an annoying issue that I found in rage from some months ago but
> >>>> I've always forgot to report it here, sorry :(
> >>>>
> >>>> There are cases where rage_thumb just go crazy, spawns several
> >>>> processes, eats up the cpu and reamins active even if I close rage, so I
> >>>> have to "killal -9 rage_thumb". Tipically it happens if I navigate the
> >>>> movie clicking with the mouse in the progress bar, so in order to avoid
> >>>> it I use to navigate via arrow keys.
> >>>
> >>> well - it's generating thumbanils for the whole movie (every 10 seconds or
> >>> so it snapshots). it literally sits and loads the movie relying on the gst
> >>> generic evas loader to load a specific frame # from the video file. it
> >>> loads, scales down, and saves to a big eet archive with all the thumbs in
> >>> it for the video...
> >>>
> >>> why is it spinning? some bakctrace, some trace/debug as to what it's
> >>> spinning on etc.... would be useful. :)
> >>
> >> I would like to help but need also help on how to generate backtraces :)
> >
> > gdb /usr/local/lib/rage/utils/rage_thumb `pidof rage_thumb`
> >
> > ...
> >
> > bt
> >
> > :)
> >
> > also getting the file it is choking on would be nice. the file will be on
> > the cmdline passed to rage_thumb..
> 
> Ok, I did this: I opened a movie, clicked on some points in the progress 
> bar to go forward and the cpu went 100% (both cores). At this point I 
> had six instances of rage_thumb running. This is the command line:
> rage /home/max/Video/Il.Volo.Del.Falco.2014.iTALiAN.BDRiP.XviD-HDi.avi
> 
> Then I closed rage but all rage_thumb processes still was alive and 
> kicking... too kicking :)
> Htop reported small cpu usage for rage_thumb, every process was eating 
> just around 1/1.5% of it. Top made me see that there were many 
> evas_image_load processes that instead was eating much more cpu, 10% and 
> occasionally 20% each process. I generated a backtrace from one of the 
> rage_thumb processes, I don't know how it is useful but it is attached. 
> In the meantime all processes quitted, so it is just a matter of time 
> waiting they do their job, but the problem is that this jog is cpu and 
> time consuming :)
> 
> Should I run gdb on evas_image_load and generate a backtrace?

doesn't sound hung to me. it sounds like its actually working. it may take
several minutes to thumbnail the video depending on how long it is... 

> >> If it would segvs i would do it via a "bt" command in gdb, but it
> >> doesn't crash and also rage_thumb keeps running in multiple processes
> >> when I stop rage, so how should I trace its activities?
> >
> > ^^^^^ you can attach to an existing process any time. when you attach the
> > process will be paused. you can grab a bt then. you can let it continue
> > running with "c" (continue) cmd any time. you can pause it again with ctrl
> > +c in gdb an get another backtrace. switch stack frame with "fr N" where N
> > matches the backtrace number. list the code where you are at with "l". list
> > a specific line number in that file in context with "l 1234". print a
> > variable you see with "p varname" dereference a pointer (like c/c++ does
> > all the time) with "p *varname" or if its a struct geta  member with "p
> > varname->member". gdb will even be able to tab complete these like a shell
> > does with files. :)
> >
> > learning gdb is a very powerful thing. you can find out so much useful info
> > about a process... :)
> >
> >>>
> >>>> Thanks
> >>>> Massimo
> >>>>
> >>>> Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) ha scritto il 20/08/2016 alle 05:45:
> >>>>> So here is a new release of Rage.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> It is a simple video and audio player intended to be slick yet
> >>>>> simplistic, much like Mplayer. You can provide 1 or more files to play
> >>>>> on the command-line or just DND files onto the rage window to insert
> >>>>> them into the playlist. You can get a visual representation of
> >>>>> everything on the playlist by hitting the / key, or just hovering your
> >>>>> mouse over the right side of the window. Mouse back over the left side
> >>>>> of the window to dismiss it or press the key again. It has a full
> >>>>> complement of key controls if you see the README for the full list. It
> >>>>> will automatically search for album art for music files, if not already
> >>>>> cached, and display that. It even generates thumbnails for the timeline
> >>>>> of a video and allows you to preview the position on mouseover of the
> >>>>> position bar at the bottom of the window.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> If you run it without any files as arguments, it will go into "browser"
> >>>>> mode where it will index $HOME/Videos and basically become a simple
> >>>>> media center.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> A feature list at this point:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>   * Play video and audio files
> >>>>>   * Support a playlist via command-line
> >>>>>   * Insert to playlist via DND
> >>>>>   * Controls hide on mouse idle, and appear on mouse movement
> >>>>>   * Fullscreen mode support with automatic "no blank" support
> >>>>>   * Playlist visual previews and controls
> >>>>>   * Subtitle file support
> >>>>>   * Supports Gstreamer 0.10, Gstreamer 1.x, Xine and VLC as media
> >>>>> engines via Emotion modules
> >>>>>   * Selection of media back-end via command-line
> >>>>>   * Album art fetch and caching
> >>>>>   * Video thumbnail timeline generation and caching
> >>>>>   * Works with any Evas engine (OpenGL acceleration, pure software etc.)
> >>>>>   * Works in X11, Wayland and Framebuffer direct support
> >>>>>   * Accelerated seek on keyboard fowrard/reverse
> >>>>>   * Drag gestures for seeking
> >>>>>   * Special different UI modes for pure audio and video
> >>>>>   * Media center browser/indexer mode
> >>>>>   * Simeline thumbails of videos get generated and displayed when over
> >>>>> seek bar
> >>>>>
> >>>>> If you want to see more go to the about page at
> >>>>> https://www.enlightenment.org/p.php?p=about/rage
> >>>>>
> >>>>> http://download.enlightenment.org/rel/apps/rage/rage-0.2.0.tar.gz
> >>>>> http://git.enlightenment.org/apps/rage.git
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> Massimo Maiurana
> >>>> Ragusa (RG)
> >>>>
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> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Massimo Maiurana
> >> Ragusa (RG)
> >>
> >
> >
> 
> 
> -- 
> Massimo Maiurana
> Ragusa (RG)


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