[Pkg-audacious-maintainers] Bug#498745: Acknowledgement (audacious: Suddenly puts songs on pause)

[Luís Picciochi Oliveira]

    Hi
    After investigating a bit more, I'm suspecting this bug may be
related to something else.
    Apparently, this bug should be assigned to the boinc-client
package but maybe there's something audacious could do too, to avoid
being a "victim" of this situation (other audio/video players don't
seem to have the same problem).

    When I stop boinc-client (which is running in the background for
the seti project), audacious never seems to have any problems when the
CPU usage goes 100% because of other applications.

    When boinc-client is running, the bug I described before is still
present. Also, some other programs show some "struggling" behaviour:
the mozilla flash plugin sometimes plays some fractions of a second of
a sound it was playing back and forth, and then continues as if it
were nothing; the mouse pointer sometimes seems to be "jumpy", and the
computer in general seems to be not very responsive. These situations
happen when there is a 100% CPU usage peak, and don't seem to be
predictable. With boinc-client stopped (I usually do it using
invoke-rc.d boinc-client stop), even under 100% CPU usage, the
computer always appears to be responsive and well behaved.

    I did a dumb test, just to confirm the suspicion: doing cat on a
big binary file in a maximized gnome-terminal makes the CPU go up
100%. When boinc is running, audacious puts the songs on pause after a
while. If not, audacious seems to not have any problem.


Information about boinc-client follows:

Package: boinc-client
Version: 6.2.14-2

-- Package-specific info:
-- Contents of /etc/default/boinc-client:
# This file is /etc/default/boinc-client, it is a configuration file for the
# /etc/init.d/boinc-client init script.

# Set this to 1 to enable and to 0 to disable the init script.
ENABLED="1"

# Set this to 1 to enable advanced scheduling of the BOINC core client and
# all its sub-processes (reduces the impact of BOINC on the system's
# performance).
SCHEDULE="1"

# The BOINC core client will be started with the permissions of this user.
BOINC_USER="boinc"

# This is the data directory of the BOINC core client.
BOINC_DIR="/var/lib/boinc-client"

# This is the location of the BOINC core client, that the init script uses.
# If you do not want to use the client program provided by the boinc-client
# package, you can specify here an alternative client program.
#BOINC_CLIENT="/usr/local/bin/boinc"
BOINC_CLIENT="/usr/bin/boinc"

# Here you can specify additional options to pass to the BOINC core client.
# Type 'boinc --help' or 'man boinc' for a full summary of allowed options.
#BOINC_OPTS="--allow_remote_gui_rpc"
BOINC_OPTS=""

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages boinc-client depends on:
ii  adduser                3.110             add and remove users and groups
ii  ca-certificates        20080809          Common CA certificates
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.22            Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                  2.7-14            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcurl3               7.18.2-5          Multi-protocol file transfer libra
ii  libssl0.9.8            0.9.8g-13         SSL shared libraries
ii  libstdc++6             4.3.2-1           The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  lsb-base               3.2-20            Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  python                 2.5.2-2           An interactive high-level object-o
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime

boinc-client recommends no packages.

Versions of packages boinc-client suggests:
pn  boinc-app-seti                <none>     (no description available)
ii  boinc-manager                 6.2.14-2   GUI to control and monitor the BOI
ii  schedtool                     1.2.10-1   Queries/alters process' scheduling

-- debconf information:
  boinc-client/remove_boinc_dir: false