From jeff.bradberry at gmail.com  Wed Oct 22 21:38:44 2008
From: jeff.bradberry at gmail.com (Jeff Bradberry)
Date: Wed Oct 22 21:38:55 2008
Subject: [As-users] AfterStep using 100% CPU when playing music
Message-ID: <c5025810810221938g7cc050d1g12e680bfc8131f9@mail.gmail.com>

Debian bug #441897 (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=441897):


From: "Jeff Bradberry" <jeff.bradberry@gmail.com>
To: submit@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Afterstep maxes out CPU usage when programs change title rapidly
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:58:39 -0400

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Package: afterstep
Version: 2.2.6-2+b1

The afterstep package sets the FollowTitleChanges option in
feel.DEFAULT(this option is unset in the current official Afterstep
sources).  This forces Afterstep to reread and parse the database file
every time a program changes title, which has bad effects (excessive CPU
usage) for those programs that do so rapidly, such as XMMS.  This problem
can also be reproduced by running the following script in an xterm:

while (true); do echo -ne "\033]0;`date`\007"; done

This will within a minute or two max out the CPU.

I suggest that the feel.DEFAULT file be changed to turn the
FollowTitleChanges off.
From as_ml at vaevictus.net  Thu Oct 23 13:53:01 2008
From: as_ml at vaevictus.net (Nathan 'Vaevictus' Mahon)
Date: Thu Oct 23 13:56:05 2008
Subject: [As-users] AfterStep using 100% CPU when playing music
In-Reply-To: <c5025810810221938g7cc050d1g12e680bfc8131f9@mail.gmail.com>
References: <c5025810810221938g7cc050d1g12e680bfc8131f9@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4900C80D.1070402@vaevictus.net>

Seems like we fixed that ages ago.  Is it still present in 2.2.8 or 
current CVS?

n8


Jeff Bradberry wrote:
> Debian bug #441897 (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=441897):
>
>
> From: "Jeff Bradberry" <jeff.bradberry@gmail.com>
> To: submit@bugs.debian.org
> Subject: Afterstep maxes out CPU usage when programs change title rapidly
> Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:58:39 -0400
>
> [Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
>
> Package: afterstep
> Version: 2.2.6-2+b1
>
> The afterstep package sets the FollowTitleChanges option in
> feel.DEFAULT(this option is unset in the current official Afterstep
> sources).  This forces Afterstep to reread and parse the database file
> every time a program changes title, which has bad effects (excessive CPU
> usage) for those programs that do so rapidly, such as XMMS.  This problem
> can also be reproduced by running the following script in an xterm:
>
> while (true); do echo -ne "\033]0;`date`\007"; done
>
> This will within a minute or two max out the CPU.
>
> I suggest that the feel.DEFAULT file be changed to turn the
> FollowTitleChanges off.
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