[Bug 18769] New: Rhythmbox stutters over very light system load

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Ubuntu | rhythmbox

           Summary: Rhythmbox stutters over very light system load
           Product: Ubuntu
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: i386
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: rhythmbox
        AssignedTo: seb128 at ubuntu.com
        ReportedBy: manu.cornet at gmail.com
         QAContact: desktop-bugs at lists.ubuntu.com


Rhythmbox stutters whenever I ask my system to do something else when an mp3 is
playing, like opening a new nautilus window (or any other program), or get my
mails. I searched for an option to make rhythmbox process priority (nice)
higher, but didn't find one. Since this is a serious bug, I guess it must quite
local, but it's very annoying nonetheless...

A funny thing is that the sound doesn't stutter at all when I perform a search
with Synaptic (and since I have universe and multiverse packages activated, it
takes a few seconds).

The rhythbox process remains at about 5% CPU and 5% memory all the time.

This seems to happen with mp3 files as well as with OGG files. Packages are (I
believe) gstreamer0.8-vorbis and gstreamer0.8-lame.

I am running an up-to-date breezy (freshly installed) and the rhythmbox process
shows a "nice" value equal to 0 (I guess this is normal). I don't believe this
is a "your computer is too old" issue : my CPU is rather recent (more than 2
GHz) and I have 512 Mo RAM.

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