Re: Kshisen taking at least 5 seconds for each move

[Sian Mountbatten <poenikatu@fastmail.co.uk>]

On 02/03/12 17:10, Sian Mountbatten wrote:
> Hi All!
>
> I have an i5-2400 running at 3.10GHz, which is a 4-core processor. I
> have 8GB 1600MHz RAM, a 120GB SSD and when I play kshisen, I have to
> wait at least 5 seconds for the game to remove a pair of tiles.
>
> It wasn't always like this. This is fairly new behaviour. I'm using KDE
> and the plasma desktop. So what's hogging the CPU? Running top doesn't
> show anything hogging the CPU. I've stopped nepomuk and strigi. When I
> killed the plasma-worktop process, the screen went black leaving my own
> app which can run a command or a number of apps which I have recorded in
> it. The computer has been up now for 3h 17m, which is not long (I
> rebooted to get the lastest kernel from the distribution kernel maker).
>
> Has anyone else had abysmally slow reactions from a KDE game? Under what
> circumstances? Even after killing knemo, the only process taking more
> than 3% CPU time is this one (icedove). I'm running top and it is taking
> 0.3% of the CPU, X0rg takes 0.3%, the load average is 0.03 and yet
> kshisen refuses to run fast. What do I have to do to get it to run at
> normal speed without pauses?
I've tried running kshisen from the command line. It emits a lot of 
messages of which the following are typical:

State change
Moving from "ready" 1 to "paused" 4
Stream changed to file:///usr/share/sounds/kshisen/tile-touch.ogg
State change
Moving from "paused" 4 to "playing" 2
Transitioning to state "ready"
State change
Moving from "playing" 2 to "paused" 4
About to finish

This continues. It looks as though the game has been deliberately slowed 
down, requiring 4 seconds between each play. Who's been messing about 
with kshisen? Is this a bug, or just a new feature?
--
Sian Mountbatten