Package: bomberclone Version: 0.11.6-1 Severity: normal
The code in bomberclone seems to perform busy loops.. it seems to loop calling SDL_PollEvent - so it soaks up CPU time on it's own. Which isn't really the Unix way of coding - it should do what it needs to and go to sleep. SDL sample code at http://sdldoc.csn.ul.ie/sdlpollevent.php shows the alternative approach. This really seems to be a design issue ( and typical of the 'single user on this machine' development approach I've seen in the past ) Not all that sure we can do much but push back upstream and request nicer code.... While the busy wait issue is a pain on a single user machine, it will cause problems on shared server ( thin clients ) environments, as all the separate games will be soaking up as much cpu as they can get. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-1-686 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Versions of packages bomberclone depends on: ii bomberclone-d 0.11.6-1 Data files for bomberclone game ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-21 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libsdl-image1 1.2.4-1 image loading library for Simple D ii libsdl-mixer1 1.2.6-1 mixer library for Simple DirectMed ii libsdl1.2debi 1.2.7+1.2.8cvs20041007-4.1 Simple DirectMedia Layer -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
