[bug] xmms generating to many wakeups when idle

"Carlos R. Mafra" <[email protected]> Tue, 14 Aug 2007 10:04:51 -0300
Newsgroups gmane.comp.multimedia.xmms.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

I am using Intel's powertop [1] program to check which applications
are waking up my processor unecessarily, and xmms is on top of the
list.
It generates around 90 wakeups per second when idle:

Top causes for wakeups:
   71.0% ( 93.4)              xmms : schedule_timeout (process_timeout)

This is a bug. When idle xmms should not wake up the cpu at all. Note
that I disabled the "running" of the song title on the display, so that
xmms is really doing nothing at my system, it is "ultra-idle".

Does somebody in this list have a clue to solve this issue?
I am not a programmer, but I guess there are some unecessary
usleep()'s in the code.

Carlos R. Mafra

[1] http://www.linuxpowertop.org/powertop.php