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#1 2012-03-17 01:27:45

sollidsnake
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Registered: 2012-01-30
Posts: 107

Applications start to freeze when playing music

Hello all!
I have a decent laptop 4GB ram and intel i5 processor. It works fine and very fast for all tasks, but when I play some music the load average increases and everything starts to freeze very frequently. If I stop the music, the applications unfreeze at the same time. I tried lots of players and playback engine (gstreamer, mplayer) and it is always the same.
I also checked the cpu usage. Seems normal - barely gets more than 10%. It also happened on my ubuntu installation. I have my system up to date.
Anyone have an idea of what it could be?


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#2 2012-03-17 02:55:14

10robinho
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Registered: 2011-12-18
Posts: 34

Re: Applications start to freeze when playing music

Hi,

have you checked what program exactly takes the load? The player or something else?

Last edited by 10robinho (2012-03-17 02:55:34)

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#3 2012-03-17 19:07:18

cfr
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Re: Applications start to freeze when playing music

What exactly about the load increases? (You say not CPU usage so presumably something else. Memory? Or?)

Anything in the logs?


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#4 2012-03-19 13:11:47

sollidsnake
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Posts: 107

Re: Applications start to freeze when playing music

@10robinho I'm not sure what is exactly the program that takes the load. How do I check that?

@cfr right now my load average is

 10:04:10 up 14:39,  3 users,  load average: 0.06, 0.28, 0.27

If I play some sound, it starts to increase and may reach 4.00 if I don't stop. It doesn't happen 100% of the times. Right now it is not happening. I have no idea why. Here is my .xsession-errors, is there anything wrong with it?

gnome-session[5327]: WARNING: Failed to start app: Unable to start application: Failed to execute child process "indicator-multiload" (No such file or directory)
Failed to play sound: File or data not found
N: [pulseaudio] main.c: User-configured server at {3f64f3a5941311b92629bfe2000000b9}unix:/home/jesse/.pulse/3f64f3a5941311b92629bfe2000000b9-runtime/native, which appears to be local. Probing deeper.
** Message: applet now removed from the notification area
Window manager warning: Log level 8: shell_tray_manager_manage_stage: assertion `manager->priv->stage == NULL' failed
      JS LOG: GNOME Shell started at Mon Mar 19 2012 00:55:56 GMT-0300 (BRT)
failed to create drawable
Window manager warning: CurrentTime used to choose focus window; focus window may not be correct.
Window manager warning: Got a request to focus the no_focus_window with a timestamp of 0.  This shouldn't happen!
** Message: applet now embedded in the notification area

(gnome-shell:5381): folks-WARNING **: Failed to find primary PersonaStore with type ID 'eds' and ID 'system'.
Individuals will not be linked properly and creating new links between Personas will not work.
The configured primary PersonaStore's backend may not be installed. If you are unsure, check with your distribution.
Locale::gettext not found -> no translations
Error loading Net::DBus :
Attempt to reload gmusicbrowser_dbus.pm aborted.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/bin/gmusicbrowser line 314.
 => controlling gmusicbrowser through DBus won't be possible.

Name "GMB::DBus::bus" used only once: possible typo at /usr/bin/gmusicbrowser line 297.
GStreamer::Interfaces perl module not found -> visuals not available
Reading saved tags in /home/jesse/.config/gmusicbrowser/gmbrc ...
Reading saved tags in /home/jesse/.config/gmusicbrowser/gmbrc ... done
These commands were not found : flac123, mpg321, ogg123
 => these file types won't be played by the 123 output : oga, flac
playing /home/jesse/Music/Seether/2007 - Finding Beauty In Negative Spaces/11-seether-dont_believe.mp3
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Underoath)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Nine Inch Nails)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Bond)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Hinder)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Atreyu)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Blessthefall)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Demon Hunter)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/The Unguided)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Thrice)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Soilwork)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Mogwai)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Sonic Syndicate)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Seether)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Behemoth)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Three Days Grace)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Underoath/2008 - Lost In The Sound Of Separation)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Underoath/2005 - The're Only Chasing Safety (SP Edition))
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Underoath/2002 - The Changing Of Times)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Underoath/2006 - Define Great Line)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Underoath/2010 - Ø (Disambiguation))
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Nine Inch Nails/1999 - The Fragile (right))
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Nine Inch Nails/2008 - The Slip)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Nine Inch Nails/[Unofficial] The Great Collapse (The Fragile B-Sides))
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Nine Inch Nails/2008 - Ghosts I-IV)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Nine Inch Nails/1999 - The Fragile (left))
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Nine Inch Nails/2005 - With Teeth)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Bond/2004 - Classified)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Hinder/2010 - All american nightmare)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Atreyu/2008 - Lead Sails Paper Anchor 2.0)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Atreyu/2009 - Congregation Of The Damned)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Atreyu/2007 - The Best Of Atreyu)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Atreyu/2002 - Suicide Notes And Butterfly Kisses)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Atreyu/2006 - A Death-Grip on Yesterday)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Atreyu/2004 - The Curse)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Blessthefall/2011 - Awakening)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Blessthefall/2007 - His Last Walk)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Blessthefall/2009 - Witness)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Demon Hunter/2005 - The Triptych (Special Edition 2006))
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Demon Hunter/2007 - Storm The Gates Of Hell)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Demon Hunter/2004 - Summer of Darkness)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Demon Hunter/2010 - The World Is A Thorn)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Demon Hunter/2008 - 45 Days)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Demon Hunter/2002 - Demon Hunter (self-tiled))
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/The Unguided/2011 - Hell Frost (Limited Edition))
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Thrice/2002 - The Illusion of Safety)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Thrice/2008 - The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Thrice/2011 - Major-Minor)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Thrice/2007 - The Alchemy Index - Vols. I & II)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Thrice/2005 - Vheissu)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Thrice/2001 - Identity Crisis)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Thrice/2005 - If We Could See Us Now)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Thrice/2009 - Beggars)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Thrice/2003 - The Artist in the Ambulance)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Soilwork/2007 - Sworn To A Great Divide)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Soilwork/2005 - Stabbing The Drama)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Soilwork/2010 - The Panic Broadcast)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Mogwai/2011 - Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Mogwai/1999 - Come On Die Young)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Mogwai/2001 - Rock Action)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Mogwai/2003 - Happy Songs For Happy People)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Mogwai/2006 - Mr Beast)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Mogwai/1997 - Young Team)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Sonic Syndicate/2008 - Love And Other Disasters)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Sonic Syndicate/2007 - Only Inhuman)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Sonic Syndicate/2010 – We Rule The Night)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Seether/2004 - Disclaimer II)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Seether/2002 - Disclaimer)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Seether/2006 - One Cold Night)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Seether/2000 - Fragile [as Saron Gas])
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Seether/2007 - Finding Beauty In Negative Spaces)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Seether/2011 - Holding Onto Strings Better Left to Fray)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Seether/2005 - Karma and Effect)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Behemoth/2003 - Conjuration (EP))
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Three Days Grace/2009 - Life Starts Now)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Three Days Grace/2006 - One-X)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Three Days Grace/2003 - Three Days Grace(self-tiled))
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Nine Inch Nails/2008 - Ghosts I-IV/Extras)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Mogwai/1997 - Young Team/Disc Two)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Mogwai/1997 - Young Team/Disc One)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Nine Inch Nails/2008 - Ghosts I-IV/Extras/extras)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Nine Inch Nails/2008 - Ghosts I-IV/Extras/__MACOSX)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Nine Inch Nails/2008 - Ghosts I-IV/Extras/extras/web graphics)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Nine Inch Nails/2008 - Ghosts I-IV/Extras/extras/wallpapers-standard)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Nine Inch Nails/2008 - Ghosts I-IV/Extras/extras/wallpapers-widescreen)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Nine Inch Nails/2008 - Ghosts I-IV/Extras/__MACOSX/extras)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Nine Inch Nails/2008 - Ghosts I-IV/Extras/__MACOSX/extras/web graphics)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Nine Inch Nails/2008 - Ghosts I-IV/Extras/__MACOSX/extras/wallpapers-standard)
ScanFolder(/home/jesse/Music/Nine Inch Nails/2008 - Ghosts I-IV/Extras/__MACOSX/extras/wallpapers-widescreen)
playing /home/jesse/Music/Seether/2006 - One Cold Night/06 - Tied My Hands.mp3
Error fetching http://post.audioscrobbler.com/?hs=true&p=1.2&c=gmb&v=0.1&u=jessenzr&t=1332129364&a=a6b02dadf79bea54e47a554a90f4e78d : 
no lyrics found in /home/jesse/Music/Seether/2006 - One Cold Night/06 - Tied My Hands.mp3
lyrics : loading http://lyrics.wikia.com/Seether:Tied%20My%20Hands
Error fetching http://post.audioscrobbler.com/?hs=true&p=1.2&c=gmb&v=0.1&u=jessenzr&t=1332129464&a=4f8ebb1a0c14520facb9a4c54833dc90 : 
dactyl: bootstrap: startup startup
dactyl: bootstrap: init pentadactyl@dactyl.googlecode.com
pentadactyl: bootstrap: init
pentadactyl: bootstrap: register: {16dc34f7-6d22-4aa4-a67f-2921fb5dcb69} @mozilla.org/commandlinehandler/general-startup;1?type=dactyl
pentadactyl: bootstrap: create module: @mozilla.org/commandlinehandler/general-startup;1?type=dactyl
Window manager warning: Log level 8: meta_window_actor_mapped: assertion `!priv->mapped' failed
Error fetching http://post.audioscrobbler.com/?hs=true&p=1.2&c=gmb&v=0.1&u=jessenzr&t=1332129624&a=aa210fbe7d9657ccd71e8827db26ed4e : 
playing /home/jesse/Music/Seether/2005 - Karma and Effect/14 - Interlude (Outro).mp3
playing /home/jesse/Music/Seether/2006 - One Cold Night/06 - Tied My Hands.mp3
playing /home/jesse/Music/Seether/2006 - One Cold Night/07 - Sympathetic.mp3
Error fetching http://post.audioscrobbler.com/?hs=true&p=1.2&c=gmb&v=0.1&u=jessenzr&t=1332129904&a=c557cf190ead12c96b981f3d5cac0a75 : 
playing /home/jesse/Music/Seether/2004 - Disclaimer II/07-sympathetic.mp3
playing /home/jesse/Music/Seether/2002 - Disclaimer/Seether - Disclaimer - 10 - pig.mp3

(gnome-shell:5381): Clutter-CRITICAL **: clutter_actor_queue_relayout: assertion `CLUTTER_IS_ACTOR (self)' failed
playing /home/jesse/Music/Seether/2002 - Disclaimer/Seether - Disclaimer - 05 - Driven Under.mp3
playing /home/jesse/Music/Seether/2006 - One Cold Night/05 - Immortality.mp3
playing /home/jesse/Music/Seether/2006 - One Cold Night/04 - Truth.mp3
playing /home/jesse/Music/Seether/2011 - Holding Onto Strings Better Left to Fray/06 - Tonight.mp3
playing /home/jesse/Music/Seether/2005 - Karma and Effect/04 - The Gift.mp3
playing /home/jesse/Music/Seether/2004 - Disclaimer II/12-broken.mp3
playing /home/jesse/Music/Seether/2006 - One Cold Night/09 - Broken.mp3
playing /home/jesse/Music/Seether/2004 - Disclaimer II/15-love_her.mp3
playing /home/jesse/Music/Seether/2007 - Finding Beauty In Negative Spaces/02-seether-fake_it.mp3
playing /home/jesse/Music/Seether/2005 - Karma and Effect/12 - Diseased.mp3
playing /home/jesse/Music/Seether/2006 - One Cold Night/06 - Tied My Hands.mp3
no lyrics found in /home/jesse/Music/Seether/2006 - One Cold Night/06 - Tied My Hands.mp3
lyrics : loading http://lyrics.wikia.com/Seether:Tied%20My%20Hands
playing /home/jesse/Music/Seether/2005 - Karma and Effect/14 - Interlude (Outro).mp3
no lyrics found in /home/jesse/Music/Seether/2005 - Karma and Effect/14 - Interlude (Outro).mp3
lyrics : loading http://lyrics.wikia.com/Seether:Interlude%20%28Outro%29
Error fetching http://lyrics.wikia.com/Seether:Interlude_(Outro) : HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
playing /home/jesse/Music/Seether/2002 - Disclaimer/Seether - Disclaimer - 03 - Fine Again.mp3
no lyrics found in /home/jesse/Music/Seether/2002 - Disclaimer/Seether - Disclaimer - 03 - Fine Again.mp3
lyrics : loading http://lyrics.wikia.com/Seether:Fine%20Again
playing /home/jesse/Music/Seether/2002 - Disclaimer/Seether - Disclaimer - 07 - Sympathetic.mp3
no lyrics found in /home/jesse/Music/Seether/2002 - Disclaimer/Seether - Disclaimer - 07 - Sympathetic.mp3
lyrics : loading http://lyrics.wikia.com/Seether:Sympathetic
playing /home/jesse/Music/Seether/2002 - Disclaimer/Seether - Disclaimer - 09 - Fade Away.mp3
no lyrics found in /home/jesse/Music/Seether/2002 - Disclaimer/Seether - Disclaimer - 09 - Fade Away.mp3
lyrics : loading http://lyrics.wikia.com/Seether:Fade%20Away
playing /home/jesse/Music/Seether/2004 - Disclaimer II/17-got_it_made.mp3
no lyrics found in /home/jesse/Music/Seether/2004 - Disclaimer II/17-got_it_made.mp3
lyrics : loading http://lyrics.wikia.com/Seether:Got%20It%20Made
playing /home/jesse/Music/Seether/2004 - Disclaimer II/15-love_her.mp3
no lyrics found in /home/jesse/Music/Seether/2004 - Disclaimer II/15-love_her.mp3
lyrics : loading http://lyrics.wikia.com/Seether:Love%20Her
found another ID3v2 tag
playing /home/jesse/Music/Seether/2007 - Finding Beauty In Negative Spaces/02-seether-fake_it.mp3
playing /home/jesse/Music/Seether/2004 - Disclaimer II/15-love_her.mp3
no lyrics found in /home/jesse/Music/Seether/2004 - Disclaimer II/15-love_her.mp3
lyrics : loading http://lyrics.wikia.com/Seether:Love%20Her
playing /home/jesse/Music/Seether/2007 - Finding Beauty In Negative Spaces/02-seether-fake_it.mp3
playing /home/jesse/Music/Seether/2005 - Karma and Effect/12 - Diseased.mp3
no lyrics found in /home/jesse/Music/Seether/2005 - Karma and Effect/12 - Diseased.mp3
lyrics : loading http://lyrics.wikia.com/Seether:Diseased
playing /home/jesse/Music/Seether/2011 - Holding Onto Strings Better Left to Fray/11 - Desire for Need.mp3
found another ID3v2 tag
no lyrics found in /home/jesse/Music/Seether/2011 - Holding Onto Strings Better Left to Fray/11 - Desire for Need.mp3
lyrics : loading http://lyrics.wikia.com/Seether:Desire%20For%20Need
playing /home/jesse/Music/Seether/2002 - Disclaimer/Seether - Disclaimer - 02 - 69 tea.mp3
no lyrics found in /home/jesse/Music/Seether/2002 - Disclaimer/Seether - Disclaimer - 02 - 69 tea.mp3
lyrics : loading http://lyrics.wikia.com/Seether:69%20Tea
playing /home/jesse/Music/Seether/2007 - Finding Beauty In Negative Spaces/04-seether-fmlyhm.mp3
playing /home/jesse/Music/Seether/2011 - Holding Onto Strings Better Left to Fray/10 - Down.mp3
found another ID3v2 tag
no lyrics found in /home/jesse/Music/Seether/2011 - Holding Onto Strings Better Left to Fray/10 - Down.mp3
lyrics : loading http://lyrics.wikia.com/Seether:Down
playing /home/jesse/Music/Seether/2004 - Disclaimer II/10-pig.mp3
playing /home/jesse/Music/Seether/2011 - Holding Onto Strings Better Left to Fray/09 - Roses.mp3
found another ID3v2 tag
no lyrics found in /home/jesse/Music/Seether/2011 - Holding Onto Strings Better Left to Fray/09 - Roses.mp3
lyrics : loading http://lyrics.wikia.com/Seether:Roses
no lyrics found in /home/jesse/Music/Seether/2006 - One Cold Night/11 - Remedy.mp3
lyrics : loading http://lyrics.wikia.com/Seether:Remedy
playing /home/jesse/Music/Seether/2006 - One Cold Night/11 - Remedy.mp3
Window manager warning: Log level 8: meta_window_actor_mapped: assertion `!priv->mapped' failed
Window manager warning: Log level 8: meta_window_actor_mapped: assertion `!priv->mapped' failed
Window manager warning: Log level 8: meta_window_actor_mapped: assertion `!priv->mapped' failed
Window manager warning: Log level 8: meta_window_actor_mapped: assertion `!priv->mapped' failed
pentadactyl: bootstrap: shutdown shutdown
dactyl: bootstrap: startup startup
dactyl: bootstrap: init pentadactyl@dactyl.googlecode.com
pentadactyl: bootstrap: init
pentadactyl: bootstrap: register: {16dc34f7-6d22-4aa4-a67f-2921fb5dcb69} @mozilla.org/commandlinehandler/general-startup;1?type=dactyl
pentadactyl: bootstrap: create module: @mozilla.org/commandlinehandler/general-startup;1?type=dactyl
Window manager warning: Log level 8: meta_window_actor_mapped: assertion `!priv->mapped' failed
Window manager warning: Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message with a timestamp of 0 for 0x280008d (Mozilla Fi)
Window manager warning: meta_window_activate called by a pager with a 0 timestamp; the pager needs to be fixed.
Window manager warning: Log level 8: meta_window_actor_mapped: assertion `!priv->mapped' failed
Window manager warning: Log level 8: meta_window_actor_mapped: assertion `!priv->mapped' failed
playing /home/jesse/Music/Seether/2007 - Finding Beauty In Negative Spaces/12-seether-waste.mp3
no lyrics found in /home/jesse/Music/Seether/2007 - Finding Beauty In Negative Spaces/12-seether-waste.mp3
lyrics : loading http://lyrics.wikia.com/Seether:Waste
playing /home/jesse/Music/Seether/2007 - Finding Beauty In Negative Spaces/09-seether-walk_away_from_the_sun.mp3
no lyrics found in /home/jesse/Music/Seether/2007 - Finding Beauty In Negative Spaces/09-seether-walk_away_from_the_sun.mp3
lyrics : loading http://lyrics.wikia.com/Seether:Walk%20Away%20From%20The%20Sun
Window manager warning: Log level 16: STACK_OP_RAISE_ABOVE: sibling window 0x2e00004 not in stack
Window manager warning: Log level 16: STACK_OP_LOWER_BELOW: sibling window 0x2e00004 not in stack
playing /home/jesse/Music/Seether/2004 - Disclaimer II/18-out_of_my_way.mp3
no lyrics found in /home/jesse/Music/Seether/2004 - Disclaimer II/18-out_of_my_way.mp3
lyrics : loading http://lyrics.wikia.com/Seether:Out%20of%20My%20Way
playing /home/jesse/Music/Seether/2004 - Disclaimer II/10-pig.mp3
playing /home/jesse/Music/Seether/2011 - Holding Onto Strings Better Left to Fray/09 - Roses.mp3
found another ID3v2 tag
no lyrics found in /home/jesse/Music/Seether/2011 - Holding Onto Strings Better Left to Fray/09 - Roses.mp3
lyrics : loading http://lyrics.wikia.com/Seether:Roses
playing /home/jesse/Music/Seether/2006 - One Cold Night/11 - Remedy.mp3
no lyrics found in /home/jesse/Music/Seether/2006 - One Cold Night/11 - Remedy.mp3
lyrics : loading http://lyrics.wikia.com/Seether:Remedy
playing /home/jesse/Music/Seether/2007 - Finding Beauty In Negative Spaces/12-seether-waste.mp3
no lyrics found in /home/jesse/Music/Seether/2007 - Finding Beauty In Negative Spaces/12-seether-waste.mp3
lyrics : loading http://lyrics.wikia.com/Seether:Waste
playing /home/jesse/Music/Seether/2002 - Disclaimer/Seether - Disclaimer - 08 - Your Bore.mp3
playing /home/jesse/Music/Seether/2007 - Finding Beauty In Negative Spaces/08-seether-6_gun_quota.mp3
no lyrics found in /home/jesse/Music/Seether/2007 - Finding Beauty In Negative Spaces/08-seether-6_gun_quota.mp3
lyrics : loading http://lyrics.wikia.com/Seether:6%20Gun%20Quota
playing /home/jesse/Music/Seether/2006 - One Cold Night/03 - Diseased.mp3
no lyrics found in /home/jesse/Music/Seether/2006 - One Cold Night/03 - Diseased.mp3
lyrics : loading http://lyrics.wikia.com/Seether:Diseased
playing /home/jesse/Music/Seether/2007 - Finding Beauty In Negative Spaces/09-seether-walk_away_from_the_sun.mp3
no lyrics found in /home/jesse/Music/Seether/2007 - Finding Beauty In Negative Spaces/09-seether-walk_away_from_the_sun.mp3
lyrics : loading http://lyrics.wikia.com/Seether:Walk%20Away%20From%20The%20Sun

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#5 2012-03-19 13:20:21

Wilco
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Posts: 440

Re: Applications start to freeze when playing music

Can you try to use mplayer on the command line without X running? So we can eliminate some possibilities

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#6 2012-03-19 13:27:31

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Re: Applications start to freeze when playing music

Next time it happens, also try to simpy run "top" to see which exact process is responsible for the load.


Burninate!

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#7 2012-03-19 19:38:36

sollidsnake
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Registered: 2012-01-30
Posts: 107

Re: Applications start to freeze when playing music

@Wilco
I tried mplayer without x server running and seemed to play with no problems. Could the problem be some hardware incompatibility with x server?
EDIT: I just tried it again without x server running and I could reproduce it. It seems to happen only when I do some parallel activity with the sound playing.

@Gcool

top - 16:31:46 up 21:06,  5 users,  load average: 0.96, 0.73, 0.62
Tasks: 290 total,   1 running, 289 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  1.6%us,  0.5%sy,  0.0%ni, 79.3%id, 18.6%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   3945216k total,  2616264k used,  1328952k free,   116528k buffers
Swap:  4881404k total,    22924k used,  4858480k free,  1785004k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND            
 9599 jesse     20   0  927m 208m  41m S    2  5.4   1:42.64 firefox            
 9397 root      20   0  166m  17m 8900 S    1  0.5   0:36.94 X                  
 9737 jesse     -6 -11  554m  20m  15m S    1  0.5   0:27.70 alsa-sink          
 9498 jesse     20   0 1325m 105m  32m S    1  2.7   0:42.63 gnome-shell        
 9490 jesse      9 -11  554m  20m  15m S    1  0.5   0:23.51 pulseaudio         
 9560 jesse     20   0  259m  79m  17m S    1  2.1   0:30.10 skype              
 9720 jesse     20   0  733m  74m  20m S    1  1.9   0:16.68 mpegaudioparse1    
 9971 jesse     20   0  459m  17m  11m S    1  0.4   0:01.06 gnome-terminal     
 9698 jesse     20   0  474m  52m  21m S    1  1.4   0:23.48 plugin-containe    
 9789 jesse     20   0  474m  52m  21m S    0  1.4   0:08.18 threaded-ml        
 9717 jesse     20   0  733m  74m  20m S    0  1.9   0:15.75 gmusicbrowser      
 9997 jesse     20   0  733m  74m  20m S    0  1.9   0:00.70 threaded-ml        
 9461 jesse     20   0  707m  17m  12m S    0  0.4   0:00.92 gnome-settings-    
 9566 jesse     20   0  259m  79m  17m S    0  2.1   0:04.44 skype              

Firefox is in the top but I don't think the problem is with it, since if I simply pause the audio everything gets back to normal at the same moment.

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#8 2012-03-23 23:06:30

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Re: Applications start to freeze when playing music

Does anyone have an idea?


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#9 2013-01-21 16:43:01

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Re: Applications start to freeze when playing music

It is likely this https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=804893 based on the "Window manager warning: Log level 8: meta_window_actor_mapped: assertion `!priv->mapped' failed" line

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#10 2013-01-21 20:50:13

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Re: Applications start to freeze when playing music

I think it has to do with Xserver.  I have mine setup correctly, but if I'm running something like stellarium and mplayer, mplayer stops.
If I run xawtv and mplayer, xawtv continues to run audio, but the video stops.


I may have to CONSOLE you about your usage of ridiculously easy graphical interfaces...
Look ma, no mouse.

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