On 09/20/2010 09:02 AM, András Csányi wrote:

Hi Guys,

I like amarok, I don't know why just I like it. Yesterday, when I
switched off amarok I saw the CPU using went down from ~40% to ~3% and
kwin from ~30% to ~1%.
the side effects of this, slower desktop and sometimes is
uncomfortable. My machine has 4GB RAM and nvidia (geforce 8400), but
the CPUs are celeron. The system is 64 bit.

I'm thinking I will change Amarok to Audacious.

Anybody else experienced this or just I'm cursed?


Strange. First time I hear of this. I've been using Amarok (currently
2.3.1.90) for quite a while, never had this problem.

On Monday 20 September 2010 11:32:57 am András Csányi wrote:
> I like amarok, I don't know why just I like it. Yesterday, when I
> switched off amarok I saw the CPU using went down from ~40% to ~3% and
> kwin from ~30% to ~1%.

I use amarok all the time, although its not lite, its cpu usage is normally
arround 5-7 % while playing and kwin is arround ~1% (when amarok is minimised
to the tray). When the window is shown the usage is slightly higher(kwin
arround 15%) this i think is because ive got the images applet enabled which
shows a sort of slide show of images with various transitioning effects like
(blending).

im on 2.3.1. what version are you using? try upgrading to the latest? try
disabling a few applets that you dont need or might be heavy.

> My machine has 4GB RAM and nvidia (geforce 8400), but
> the CPUs are celeron. The system is 64 bit.

ive got a similar machine but with a core 2 duo cpu

> I had a lot of stability problems with amarok on opensuse. IMHO it's
> not worth the hassle, go with one of the alternatives.

well i guess its improved a lot lately, ive never had any stablity issues with
amarok.

--
- Yohan Pereira.

On Monday 20 September 2010, András Csányi wrote:
>
> I'm thinking I will change Amarok to Audacious.
>
> Anybody else experienced this or just I'm cursed?

cursed.

Also, if you want something 'light':
qmmp
alsaplayer

> Also, if you want something 'light':
> qmmp
> alsaplayer

There's also media-sound/clementine