Hello,
I have continued to hammer on FreeAMP. I downloaded and compiled from
CVS this morning so that my feedback would be more relevant.
First, some background. I have encoded most of my CD's for quick and
easy access while working. I started out encoding MP3's with LAME, but
switched to Ogg Vorbis after their beta1. I now have 509 MP3 files and
344 Vorbis files. This results in a total of 3.76 gigs of music.
I fired up my new copy of FreeAMP, and specified my music directory as
the directory for the Music Browser to scan. All went well for about
three minutes. It zipped through the MP3 albums and moved slower for
Vorbis albums. I put that down to the lower amount of optimisation
done by the Vorbis team. However, as FreeAMP scanned, the system grew
slower and slower. Eventually mouse movements wouldn't appear on
screen for 30 seconds or more. FreeAMP ceased to update the name of
the directory being scanned, even though I could hear the hard drive
still spinning. After about 5-7 minutes X came crashing down.
Hazarding a guess here - reading Linux Care's Kernel Traffic it appears
that the kernel will kill a process once available memory is
exhausted. I believe FreeAMP exhausted all memory (128M RAM + 128M
Swap) and the kernel killed FreeAMP/X.
Anyway, unless otherwise warned with a Cease and Desist notice I will
consider myself the Ogg Vorbis, memory hog who tests to destruction.
Looking forward to 2.1.0,
later,
joseph
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