rhythmbox, pidgin have 132 child processes open

[Troy Earley]

Binary package hint: rhythmbox

According to pstree, rhythmbox has 132 child processes open.
This seems excessive, as rhythmbox is paused in the background with my Creative Zen MP3 player connected, but idle.

I'm using Ubuntu 8.10 64-bit.

[Dave Gilbert (ubuntu-treblig)]

Hi, can you please post the exact line from your pstree output - is it showing the processes in {'s - i.e. it's lots of threads
rather than processes?
It's just there is a known bug in Rhythmbox in 8.10 that it leaks a thread on each song played. It's fixed in the Jaunty 9.04 version.

(I can't find the bug entry for it)

[Troy Earley (cyborgtroy)]

That's exactly the problem I'm having. It's leaving a thread or a process or something open for each song, even when I skip backwards.

After startup:
rhythmbox───{rhythmbox}

After I press play:
rhythmbox───11*[{rhythmbox}]

And almost every time I skip to the next song, the number increases, until I get bored and close it.
I'm glad this is already being fixed, since it's so blatant. Is the intrepid version not getting fixed, then?

[Troy Earley (cyborgtroy)]

Decibel audio player has the exact same problem, but the process name is python instead of rhythmbox, and it starts with 7 child processes, not 11.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

could you try on jaunty?

[Troy Earley (cyborgtroy)]

I'm triple-booting between intrepid, Kubuntu jaunty, and Windows XP atm,
I'll see.

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden>wrote:

> could you try on jaunty?
>
> --
> rhythmbox, pidgin have 132 child processes open
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/353453
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in “rhythmbox” source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: rhythmbox
>
> According to pstree, rhythmbox has 132 child processes open.
> This seems excessive, as rhythmbox is paused in the background with my
> Creative Zen MP3 player connected, but idle.
>
> I'm using Ubuntu 8.10 64-bit.
>

[Troy Earley (cyborgtroy)]

On Kubuntu 9.04 64-bit, Amarok doesn't seem to have this problem. It has 13 or 22 processes open, but even after skipping through my entire music collection, it wouldn't go above 22 processes.

[Dave Gilbert (ubuntu-treblig)]

Troy, can you confirm that rhythmbox (which is your original bug) is fine on 9.04 or newer?
It was fixed for me sometime around then.

Dave

[Troy Earley (cyborgtroy)]

Yeah, it goes up around 11 processes after skipping around but then drops to
9 or 10. I don't even use Rhythmbox anymore, but it seems to be working.

On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 6:48 PM, Dave Gilbert <email address hidden> wrote:

> Troy, can you confirm that rhythmbox (which is your original bug) is fine
> on 9.04 or newer?
> It was fixed for me sometime around then.
>
> Dave
>
> --
> rhythmbox, pidgin have 132 child processes open
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/353453
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in “rhythmbox” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: rhythmbox
>
> According to pstree, rhythmbox has 132 child processes open.
> This seems excessive, as rhythmbox is paused in the background with my
> Creative Zen MP3 player connected, but idle.
>
> I'm using Ubuntu 8.10 64-bit.
>

[Dave Gilbert (ubuntu-treblig)]

Confirmed that one of the previous fixes that fixes it for everyone else fixes it for Troy.

Dave