Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] TiMidity as a CPU hog
From: Takashi Iwai (tiwai_AT_suse.de)
Date: Fri Jun 11 2004 - 15:46:33 EEST
At Thu, 10 Jun 2004 15:47:07 -0400,
Dave Phillips wrote:
>
> Greetings:
>
> Can someone explain why TiMidity eventually hogs the CPU at 95% or
> more after running for a while (like 12 hours or more) ? I'm talking
> about hogging the chip while TiMidity is idling, not playing. I'm using
> it as a softsynth, it works well, but even in the latest version its CPU
> usage just soars. Here's how I'm invoking 2.13.0 :
>
> timidity -iA -B2,8 -c /home/dlphilp/timidity.cfg -A100 -Oj
> -EFreverb=0 -EFchorus=0
>
> Takashi: Obviously I spoke too soon in my earlier message. I just
> looked at top again and saw that TiMidity was eating up 96% of the CPU. :(
If it constantly hogs CPU even without playing noes, it must be a
bug. My rough guess is that the sample position goes back to 0 or
negative due to the integer overflow.
Are you keeping the MIDI connection for this long time?
What happens if you once disconnect from timidity?
Takashi
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