Having followed this thread for a while, I fired up my smp box tonight
and started xmms and listened to Bruce workin' on the highway during
dinner with a monitor running and I saw no unusual cpu activity with
xmms, the mixer, or any other process and the cpu load was below 18% the
entire time usually around 2-3% and jumped up momentarily when the
monitor cranked out another summary line in the logfile. My box is
configured as follows:
Abit bp6 w/celerons overclocked at 550Mhz, 128MB pc100 atlas precision
ram, 47gb deskstar ide(20.5 + [EMAIL PROTECTED]), 18gb ultrastar scsi (where the
mp3's are stored), plextor 32x cdrom, plextor cdr, sb live, 3com 3c905
nic.
Linux smp kernel 2.2.16-1mdksmp installed from the mandrake cooker
archive (mostly because to date I have had no success with a 2.2 kernel
custom compiled and having the sb live function).
I'll try the 2.3.99-pre9 kernel later that I compiled with the sb live
driver (emu10k) which also appears to function great but I have never
run a monitor to check the system activity. Will let you know if
anything unusual happens, but I don't think that it will having listened
to mp3's and surfed and compiled kernels all at the same time with that
configuration.
I understand the frustration with the mp3, I like my music too! So, I
hope this helps you find the problem in your systems. My system
apparently works just fine and I know that when someone else can make
his system work, then I can get mine to function also. Happy hunting.
Tom Berkley
"Brian J. Conway" wrote:
>
> > I see the same thing on a BP6 for sometime now (many months), and
> > seems to be strictly SMP related. For me, many of the windowmaker dock
> > apps do this. It is not just xmms. This has been posted and discussed
> > here before. Also, I filed it with bugzilla, to no avail. I've got a
>
> Agreed, I've seen it with many such applications, including things like
> an unmoving wmint. This just seems strange, as I have quite a few
> aquaintances that have had no such problems and recommended SMP systems.
>
> > load monitor on my dock, and I just watch it cycle through every few
> > minutes. It does not seem to effect performance (that I can tell), and
> > I have wondered if it is maybe a phantom load.
>
> I've been using a couple of load monitors and watched the cycle run
> through, but I've definitely noticed a lot of slowdown. Compiling
> source on a console works very nicely, but this isn't ideal for a
> desktop system. The system performs far more responsively and nicely on
> a uniprocessor kernel setup, and I can play my beloved games too. (Q3A,
> UT, and Heretic 2 all suffer from running both processor through the
> roof and hosing the game)
>
> > For me, watching this with xosview, or wmBP6, the processors will
> > spike one at a time with a brief pause in between. According to
> > xosview, they actually hit 100% load (per individual CPU - 50% system
> > load). Then a several minute pause, then the cycle repeats. I have
> > watched for an answer to this mystery in many places for some time
> > now, and have yet to find it.
>
> *Sigh*. This doesn't appear to be a completely widespread problem, so
> I'm really curious in tracking down the components that are causing such
> a thing. I've heard of perfect results with my motherboard, and I know
> the ethernet card is happy. Perhaps various sound card or other drivers
> hurting things? I dunno, this looks like a bit of a dead end at the
> moment.
>
> Brian J. Conway
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