Re: Re: php-cli vs python OT

On 6/10/07, Robert Cummings <robert@interjinn.com> wrote:

On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 23:33 +0100, Colin Guthrie wrote: Robert Cummings wrote:

On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 16:36 -0400, Daniel Brown wrote:

    Are you using Amarok on Windows, Linux, or other?  I have Amarok

1.3.1 on KDE 3.4.2 on Mandriva 2006.0 Community on 2.6.12-12mdksmp on an i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.60GHz w/ 1GB RAM on a desk with a bunch of crap on it, and all it does is crash for me. I use Totem instead, occasionally using xine for audio, and usually for video (different subject). Just wondering how stable Amarok is for you.

I'm running Amarok 1.4.3 (using KDE 3.5.5) on Ubuntu 6.10 (I'm actually a Gnome user). I used Mandrake up till 10.0, I'll never go back. My desktop is an Athlon 2400 with 2 gigs of memory (though consumption rarely goes past half gig unless I'm running several VMWare OSes at the same time). I started using it about 3 days ago, I've had a few crashes, but mostly when doing something major like re-scanning my collection (8000+). Had no trouble grabbing covers, creating playlists, editing 100s of tags within Amarok, etc. Only complaint really is that it's pig slow when switching to or sorting columns on large playlists (well the whole 8000 heheh).

I'm a Mandriva dev and would have to say that if you've not used it for a while I think you'll be pleasently surprised these days. It's come a long, long way since 10.0! Also the older Amarok run by Daniel is faily unstable (I'm also a bit of a KDE dev when I get a mo'!) is fairly old and bug ridden. Whatever your distro, I'd upgrade your Amarok to the latest stable for the best experience. FWIW, if you add your sources correctly you can just urpmi your 2006.0 machine to 2007.1 relatively easily. I've done it on several machines now (a couple of them remotely!). FYI, after a few days of using Amarok I've found it to be extremely prone to hanging. To try and correct the problem I downloaded the latest stable source (1.4.5) and built it myself. Still hanging all over the place (simple selection of new mp3, re-arranging queued songs, etc). It also appears to keep NFS file handles open (possibly with locks) since my NFS hung a few times after it died and I had to force an unmount. Definitely not NFS itself, I've transferred 100s of gigs over months of uptime without a problem... only seen it hang on an Amarok hang (more than once now). Anyways, I'll keep giving it a go, I created a wrapper script when starting it up now that checks the process list and kills all related Amarok processes before relaunching... makes it a little more bearable). BTW, I know this isn't your issue or anything Colin, just passing along my experience for Dan :) Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn |

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Are you using journaling? It may be something we have in common that's causing both of our problems. Really OT for the PHP list, but maybe we can whip up a replicated issue for a bug report nonetheless. -- Daniel P. Brown [office] (570-) 587-7080 Ext. 272 [mobile] (570-) 766-8107