UPDATED: Wednesday May 11, 2011 I've noticed 'doodle' kinda starts and stops at different times of the day with no specific times. Yesterday, May 10, 2011, because of a major screwup on my part running EasyTAG v2.1.6, I corrected the mistakes over a 4 day span. I'm guessing (and hope) 'doodle' is indexing files, finding renamed mp3's and updating them, much like Windows XP Pro did in the background WHEN the computer was idle. Yesterday, when I DJ'd in IDJC in Second Life, again, the GUI froze, made buttons unclickable. I let it go for 2 hours since I was in Playlist 1 on RANDOM (shuffle) mode. Checked processes. AH HA! doodle up to 98% CPU w/NICE +10, Python up to 100% on occasion NICE= 0, IDJC processes all run NICE= 0. Yet the stream ran perfect at 192 kbps 44.1 kHz with people listening. Aware and knowing these processes were running and I couldn't safely stop (KILL PROCESS) IDJC and risk damaging the program, it hit me. I started a song on Playlist 2.. Voila! The GUI because active (unfroze). Then put Playlist 1 to ALTERNATE (song finishes then fades to Playlist 2). YAYY!! I finally got control of the GUI. Allowed Playlist 2 set to MANUAL (stops at end of song) to finish song. Went to Encoder and KICK INCUMBENT to safely stop the stream. With IDJC now idle, left System Monitor open to observe. "doodle" had stopped. Python was still busy adding the 7,000 songs I had (hours before) ordered it to Playlist 2. Waited another hour or so until Python stopped. Checked and verified Playlist 2 had reached a ZZ Top mp3. Safely shut the program down. CONCLUSION: seems 'doodle' is not CPU friendly while running critical programs i.e. IDJC/JACK.
WHY am I telling you this? Because for 2 years i used SAM Broadcaster v3.2.2 in Win XP Pro SP3. In Prefs, SAM had a "Priority" slider, by default set to HIGH. That meant whatever other programs are running, SAM bullied the CPU for highest possible priority. I kinda wish IDJC did that -or- doodle had a higher NICE value, like say +20. I may get the courage sometime and manually raise doodle's NICE value. I'm always paranoid of breaking this system - because I don't ever want to go back to MS Windows. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/773309 Title: Process "doodle" runs nearly 100% CPU with IDJC causing freezeups -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
