Bug 118729

Summary: artsd slows down system
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0 Reporter: Daniel Wolstenholme <daniel>
Component: KDEAssignee: E-mail List <kde-maintainers>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Critical    
Priority: P5 - None    
Version: RC 1   
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Hardware: x86   
OS: SUSE Other   
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Description Daniel Wolstenholme 2005-09-25 07:57:20 UTC 
After starting up KDE, I have to kill the artsd process because it is 
consuming 20% CPU time and making the system very slow and unresponsive (and 
it's still pretty slow and unresponsive even after this, but not nearly as 
bad).  This system is a brand new 3.6GHz Pentium 4 so a slow CPU isn't the 
problem I don't think. 
 
I've read other bug reports here about arts, and how it doesn't seem to be 
needed, but then how do you play anything?  Amarok needs either the arts or 
the xine engine selected to play.  Selecting the xine engine doesn't work at 
all; playing a song only takes 1/2 second, and then it moves to the next song, 
in rapid succession.  Only arts works at all, but then playing MP3s takes up a 
LOT of CPU time between arts and amarok.  I didn't think MP3s should consume 
so many resources; I had no problems playing them in earlier SUSE/KDE versions 
on much slower hardware in the past.
Comment 1 Stephan Kulow 2005-09-25 15:20:47 UTC 
artsd isn't sttared at all for a new user and we won't fix bugs in there. Make  
a different bug report if your xine engine is broken, but only after you 
updated to the final as there were some fixes between RC1 and final
Comment 2 Daniel Wolstenholme 2005-09-27 02:56:14 UTC 
So what's the deal with arts?  Is it being phased out or something?  And why 
is it hogging CPU time now?  I've been using KDE on SUSE since the KDE 1.x 
days, and never saw artsd hogging so much CPU time.  (Then again, I've never 
seen SUSE Linux run as slow as it does now; I just upgraded to a 3.6GHz 
Prescott P4 and SUSE 10.0 RC1 at the same time, and I'm right back to the 
exact same performance (maybe worse) that I had with a 300 MHz Celeron (the 
crappy one without any cache).  Is this supposed to be progress?