At Thu, 10 Jun 2004 15:47:07 -0400, Dave Phillips wrote: > > Greetings: > > Can someone explain why TiMidity eventually hogs the CPU at 95% or > more after running for a while (like 12 hours or more) ? I'm talking > about hogging the chip while TiMidity is idling, not playing. I'm using > it as a softsynth, it works well, but even in the latest version its CPU > usage just soars. Here's how I'm invoking 2.13.0 : > > timidity -iA -B2,8 -c /home/dlphilp/timidity.cfg -A100 -Oj > -EFreverb=0 -EFchorus=0 > > Takashi: Obviously I spoke too soon in my earlier message. I just > looked at top again and saw that TiMidity was eating up 96% of the CPU. :(
If it constantly hogs CPU even without playing noes, it must be a bug. My rough guess is that the sample position goes back to 0 or negative due to the integer overflow. Are you keeping the MIDI connection for this long time? What happens if you once disconnect from timidity? Takashi
