On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Todd Goodman wrote:
> The problem I have is that as soon as I enable the effect plugin
> (live-xmms) in XMMS, lame sucks up around 50% of the CPU and XMMS sucks
> up the other 50%. This is on a Linux 6.2 system with a 933MHz PIII. I
> can actually run cdparanoia and xingmp3enc separately from the command
> line on the same machine while xmms is running and have no problems
> (i.e., tons of available CPU).
>
> I tried running lame with the -f switch too and it didn't make any
> difference.
I don't really understand where the problem is. A process like LAME is CPU
bound. i.e it does very little IO, but simply uses all the CPU it can get
to process data. If LAME is the only process on a box then it will use
around 100% of CPU. If you start up something else on that machine which
is also CPU bound then both will get around of 50% each. Whether you have
a 1MHz 8088 or a PIII 1.2GHz, LAME is still going to use ~100% of
CPU. With a faster CPU it will simply use 100% of CPU for a shorter time.
> Is this a known problem? Is it expected?
I hope I explained what I *think* you were asking.
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