On Thu, 15 May 2003, Tim Gunning wrote:
> does anyone else suffer from extremely high cpu load when using xmms ?
> mine averages aound 25%, which kind of kills things a little when I try to
> open another app.
> Am curently using KDE 2.2.2, on woody with xmms 1.2.7.
> Memory usage is quite high as well, so I'm going to up that, just when I
> used media player under windows (same laptop) it ran fine whilst running
> other apps.
> Notebook is P200MMX - not great but runs everything fine for me apart from
> this sound load issue. If I could find a low cpu/memory usage player (.mp3,
> .pls) I'd happily swap, just cant seem to find (a recent) one that does
> streaming.
It sounds average. mp3 decompression is a tad CPU intensive, you need a
beefy 486 or above for it to work.
On my pentium 166, with xmms 1.2.7, I tend to use between 10% and 35% of
the CPU. That is without using KDE, since I stick to fluxbox, and
sticking to a local mp3 file. However, I have two recommendations for
you: 1) check out hdparm, and 2) if you have a low amount of memory,
hit ebay (I'm at 80M right now, and it seems to be a good cost/benefit
ratio, considering it cost me $25 for the laptop memory stick [64M]).
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