Toby wrote: > If you can use CVS you could narrow it down to a single CVS checkin.
I don't know about how to use CVS, but if it is not hard, then I might try it out and get somewhere. > Kimmo Sundqvist wrote: >> Tried playing sabre_dance.mid. It was ok for 10 seconds, then I >> noticed a clicking that got faster and faster, and suddenly the noise ... >> after the Sabre dance starts playing, Fluidsynth's CPU usage slowly >> (in about 10 seconds) climbs to 99% and stays there. > Wait a minute, does the screeching sound only appear after Fluidsynth > has been at 99% CPU for some time? I think I saw with 1.0.5 that the CPU usage of Fluidsynth was low until I started playing, and the problem appeared at the same time the CPU usage wento to 100%. With 1.0.3 the CPU usage goes to 99% immediately after I start Fluidsynth. That is, before any SoundFont is loaded and before anything is being played. This is not a big problem with a dual CPU machine, but a bug nevertheless. I never have problems with actual skipping. I have problems with the relative loudness of instruments totally messed up with 1.0.3 and Merlin 22MB soundfont, but other than that, 1.0.3 would work perfectly if not for the 99% of CPU time. > From what you say it seems like something is making Fluidsynth > gradually comsume more and more CPU until it reaches 99%, at which point > clicks appear (this is normal.) Not clicks as in skipping, but clicks as in a positive feedback loop. > This is quite plausible behaviour and quite a different matter than > 'something' in the MIDI file triggering evil screeches at random. I will look more into the randomness. > If this were the case, we'd be looking for a sort of 'CPU leak' > somewhere in Fluidsynth or maybe in your system's libraries or kernel. > Can you investigate further? My system is Gentoo linux with gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r2 I will try installing 1.0.5 and do comparisons. 1.0.4 is not available in Portage, but I will see if I can make a 1.0.4 ebuild myself. -Kimmo S. _______________________________________________ fluid-dev mailing list fluid-dev@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fluid-dev
