OS X very high CPU load

[Christie Harris]

On 26/02/2009, at 8:48 PM, Leo Franchi wrote:

> On 26 Feb 2009, at 03:55, Christie Harris wrote:
>
>> Further (since I can't seem to access b.k.o at the moment) When  
>> Amarok
>> is hidden in finder while the CPU is high, CPU immediately drops to
>> 1%, and shoots back up when unhidden. I'm guessing something plasma
>> related, but not sure where to go from here.
>>
>> Christie
>>
>
> Are you using 2.0.1.1? Unfortunately as the whole CV was basically
> rewritten in SVN after 2.0 came out it's going be hard to compare
> directly with what there is in SVN.
>
>
> One thing you could do is when you have the 100% CPU, open Activity
> Monitor, select the Amarok process,and then click the Sample Process
> buton in the toolbar. Then paste that output somewhere
>
> leo
>
>
>
>> On 26/02/2009, at 10:04 AM, Christie Harris wrote:
>>
>>> Hi guys,
>>> For a while now I've been trying to find time to investigate high  
>>> CPU
>>> load with Amarok 2 on intel OS X, particularly when Amarok is
>>> "idle" (ie, not playing anything, not building any collection).
>>>
>>> By high, I mean around 70%!
>>>
>>> I've finally tracked it down to the "Current Track Info" plasmoid/
>>> plasmid or whatever they're called, being present on Amarok  
>>> launch. I
>>> can remove this, and CPU load drops down to 1% and stays there, even
>>> when "Current track info" is re-added.
>>>
>>> If I remove "Current Track Info" then quit Amarok and relaunch, the
>>> plasmoid is back, and CPU is high again.
>>>
>>> I'll post this as a bug if I need to, but I was mainly checking to
>>> see
>>> whether a) it's a known problem that's already been fixed, and b)
>>> whether there's any other info I can provide before I do file the
>>> bug.
>>>
>>> Cheers, Christie
>>>

Sorry, no I'm using the 2.0 beta package. I'm mainly trying to find  
out whether the problem happens for anyone else using SVN - I guess if  
you can't reproduce it, chances are it's been fixed! I'll just wait  
more patiently for those packagers to d otheir stuff ;-)

Cheers, Christie