[linux-audio-dev] TiMidity as a CPU hog

[Takashi Iwai]

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