I did a strace on the RB processe, and I have tons of :
gettimeofday({1269937667, 515109}, NULL) = 0 read(10, "l\1\0\1\0\0\0\0\270\1\0\0\206\0\0\0\1\1o\0\33\0\0\0/org/gno"..., 2048) = 152 read(10, 0x9bcfc18, 2048) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) read(7, 0x9b866c0, 4096) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) gettimeofday({1269937667, 515498}, NULL) = 0 poll([{fd=5, events=POLLIN}, {fd=7, events=POLLIN}, {fd=13, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=15, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=16, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=17, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=21, events=POLLIN}, {fd=22, events=POLLIN}, {fd=18, events=POLLIN}, {fd=3, events=POLLIN}, {fd=23, events=POLLIN}, {fd=25, events=POLLIN}, {fd=10, events=POLLIN}], 13, 0) = 0 (Timeout) writev(10, [{"l\2\1\1\4\0\0\0\342\0\0\0\37\0\0\0\6\1s\0\5\0\0\0:1.55\0\0\0"..., 48}, {"\1\0\0\0", 4}], 2) = 52 read(7, 0x9b866c0, 4096) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) by comparaison, gst-launch only shows a few : gettimeofday({1269937720, 82394}, NULL) = 0 poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN}], 1, 249) = 0 (Timeout) gettimeofday({1269937720, 332426}, NULL) = 0 -- Rhythmbox constantly consumes 20-30% of CPU https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/551194 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs