Amarok uses 100% cpu [solved]

[Guest Krrish]

I am using Amarok for playing mp3 songs.

Recently i selected the collection option.It was working fine.

I observe it uses 100 % cpu always.top gave me this info.

how do i unselect the collection option and reduce the cpu usage by amarok.

 

:unsure:

 

- Krish

[scarecrow]

Well, you can change your collection via the amarok settings so that your "collection" is an empty folder.

A more sane solution is substituting the collection backend software from sqlite to postgresql (my preference), or mysql. Both are MUCH faster/more responsive than sqlite, and they also use considerably less cpu cycles.

Instructions on how to set amarok using mysql/postgresql are to be found at the amarok website.

[Guest Krrish]

Thanks.

 

I have stopped the collection.Even then it is using 100% CPU.

I am using Amarok 1.4.5 with KDE 3.5.6

 

How can i stop it using 100% CPU

[scarecrow]

Which distro (exactly)?

Are you sure it's Amarok and not something else, e.g kat or beagle?

Amarok works fine here (1.4.7 on KDE 3.5.8 and Archlinux) even on my media center (using sqlite as well as postgresql), which is the weakest machine I've got (Celeron 2.4G with one gig of RAM).

[Guest Krrish]

hey thanks scarecrow,

 

I tried to set the default setting and restarted Amarok.

Now its working fine.

 

Thanks for your help.I donno what i did previously.I have Intel Centrino Duo processor with 1 G RAM.

:)

[scarecrow]

Glad I helped... however, I may give a couple of tips:

1. If you are using kat (which was default at older Mandriva releases), then simply REMOVE it. This software is useless/a waste of time, HD space and CPU cycles.

2. Beagle is certainly much better, but it also eats some processing power, and its logfiles can be HUGE (factly- consuming the best part of your home partition. If you need it, you can set a cron job to purge these huge logfiles after say XX hours- else you will be short of HD space soon.

Of course none of these tips has something to do with Amarok itself.