sqeezeserver hogging CPU

[jwb]

Hi folks- My computer has been acting a little slow on certain things lately. Streaming videos, for one. I checked the broadband speed; it's good. So, then I go to the system monitor. No weird processes seem to be running, and yet as I check out CPU usage, I get this weird wavelike pattern where the CPUs max out every 5 seconds and then go back down.

I ran the command
$ top -n 10
and it identified squeezeserver as a big CPU hog. The system monitor wasn't picking it up, because the squeezeserver is not logged in as me, but rather as user "squeezeb"

I tested. Yep, running:
sudo service squeezeboxserver stop
knocks the CPU usage back down to usual, humming along at under 40%.
And
sudo service squeezeboxserver start
pops it back up to bouncing between 60 and 100%.

Any idea what is going on? Thanks!
John

Here's what I've got:
Ubuntu 10.10
3 GB memory, dual 2.8 ghz pentium processors
a 2 terabyte hard drive, about half full
Logitech Media Server Version: 7.7.2 - r33893
and the above runs three Squeezebox 3

[gharris999]

Any 3rd party plugins installed? There's no way sbs ought to be eating those kinds of cpu cycles on that hardware if it's just idling.

[jwb]

Any 3rd party plugins installed? There's no way sbs ought to be eating those kinds of cpu cycles on that hardware if it's just idling.

I have TrackStat installed, but disabled. I went in and disabled everything I thought could make a difference, but no luck...

[Mnyb]

Is it scanning ? Or is it playing music , if so what file format to what player ? If it's idling it's really weird

[jwb]

Is it scanning ? Or is it playing music , if so what file format to what player ? If it's idling it's really weird

No, it isn't scanning. I DID have some problems with the thing scanning to frequently, for whatever reason, but even when it isn't scanning, CPU usage stays the same. No music playing, no difference whether the units are on or off, either.

So, the squeezeserver is used for things like Pandora and Live Music Archive, right? I've just been turning off the squeezeserver to keep things running smoothly. I can still play music from my hard drive to the SB units. I don't use Pandora much, anyway.

It is odd, though. Now I see that in the output from
top -n 10
that even when I stop the process squeezeserver there is still something from that same user running (see attachment), but at least whatever it is doesn't seem to be taking much CPU power.

[Mnyb]

No, it isn't scanning. I DID have some problems with the thing scanning to frequently, for whatever reason, but even when it isn't scanning, CPU usage stays the same. No music playing, no difference whether the units are on or off, either.

So, the squeezeserver is used for things like Pandora and Live Music Archive, right? I've just been turning off the squeezeserver to keep things running smoothly. I can still play music from my hard drive to the SB units. I don't use Pandora much, anyway.

It is odd, though. Now I see that in the output from
top -n 10
that even when I stop the process squeezeserver there is still something from that same user running (see attachment), but at least whatever it is doesn't seem to be taking much CPU power.

You may have more than one sbs/lms running at the same time .

Was it not some version of the debian/ubuntu installer that left an old stratup script around making 2 copies start at boot

[jwb]

You may have more than one sbs/lms running at the same time .

Was it not some version of the debian/ubuntu installer that left an old stratup script around making 2 copies start at boot

Hmmm. Could be. How would I check that?
thx
John

[Mnyb]

Don't limit top wit -n 10 it may be visible sometimes you can quit top with q .

You should se more than one Squeezeboxserver process running ( there is probably a better way )

[Mnyb]

The ps command .

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/show-al...sses-in-linux/

[aubuti]

I would use:

ps aux | grep squeeze