On Sun, 21 Aug 2016 19:47:20 +0200 Massimo Maiurana <[email protected]> said:

> Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) ha scritto il 21/08/2016 alle 15:05:
> > On Sun, 21 Aug 2016 14:22:33 +0200 Massimo Maiurana <[email protected]>
> > said:
> >
> >> Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) ha scritto il 21/08/2016 alle 14:03:
> >>> On Sun, 21 Aug 2016 10:42:47 +0200 Massimo Maiurana <[email protected]>
> >>> said:
> >>>
> >>>> Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) ha scritto il 21/08/2016 alle 01:42:
> >>>>> On Sat, 20 Aug 2016 19:04:44 +0200 Massimo Maiurana <[email protected]>
> >>>>> said:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) ha scritto il 20/08/2016 alle 14:17:
> >>>>>>> On Sat, 20 Aug 2016 09:41:00 +0200 Massimo Maiurana
> >>>>>>> <[email protected]> said:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> There is an annoying issue that I found in rage from some months ago
> >>>>>>>> but I've always forgot to report it here, sorry :(
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> There are cases where rage_thumb just go crazy, spawns several
> >>>>>>>> processes, eats up the cpu and reamins active even if I close rage,
> >>>>>>>> so I have to "killal -9 rage_thumb". Tipically it happens if I
> >>>>>>>> navigate the movie clicking with the mouse in the progress bar, so
> >>>>>>>> in order to avoid it I use to navigate via arrow keys.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> well - it's generating thumbanils for the whole movie (every 10
> >>>>>>> seconds or so it snapshots). it literally sits and loads the movie
> >>>>>>> relying on the gst generic evas loader to load a specific frame #
> >>>>>>> from the video file. it loads, scales down, and saves to a big eet
> >>>>>>> archive with all the thumbs in it for the video...
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> why is it spinning? some bakctrace, some trace/debug as to what it's
> >>>>>>> spinning on etc.... would be useful. :)
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I would like to help but need also help on how to generate
> >>>>>> backtraces :)
> >>>>>
> >>>>> gdb /usr/local/lib/rage/utils/rage_thumb `pidof rage_thumb`
> >>>>>
> >>>>> ...
> >>>>>
> >>>>> bt
> >>>>>
> >>>>> :)
> >>>>>
> >>>>> also getting the file it is choking on would be nice. the file will be
> >>>>> on the cmdline passed to rage_thumb..
> >>>>
> >>>> Ok, I did this: I opened a movie, clicked on some points in the progress
> >>>> bar to go forward and the cpu went 100% (both cores). At this point I
> >>>> had six instances of rage_thumb running. This is the command line:
> >>>> rage /home/max/Video/Il.Volo.Del.Falco.2014.iTALiAN.BDRiP.XviD-HDi.avi
> >>>>
> >>>> Then I closed rage but all rage_thumb processes still was alive and
> >>>> kicking... too kicking :)
> >>>> Htop reported small cpu usage for rage_thumb, every process was eating
> >>>> just around 1/1.5% of it. Top made me see that there were many
> >>>> evas_image_load processes that instead was eating much more cpu, 10% and
> >>>> occasionally 20% each process. I generated a backtrace from one of the
> >>>> rage_thumb processes, I don't know how it is useful but it is attached.
> >>>> In the meantime all processes quitted, so it is just a matter of time
> >>>> waiting they do their job, but the problem is that this jog is cpu and
> >>>> time consuming :)
> >>>>
> >>>> Should I run gdb on evas_image_load and generate a backtrace?
> >>>
> >>> doesn't sound hung to me. it sounds like its actually working. it may take
> >>> several minutes to thumbnail the video depending on how long it is...
> >>
> >> It doesn't hang but it makes my pc unresponsive for a long time, even
> >
> > no - i meant that rage_thumb isn't hung - it sounds by your description,
> > like it's doing it's job. it's trying to generate thumbnails...
> >
> > i wonder if the issue is that the stream cannot be seeked and thus it's
> > simply repeatedly generating frame 0 because a seek to a point fails...
> >
> > if you do:
> >
> > strace -f -o ~/log -p `pidof rage_thumb`
> >
> > then grep through the file for "exec" - you should find the exec lines that
> > run the generic loader... what are the aerguments? there should be the file
> > plus a number. the number should be large - eg going up by 1000 per second
> > being snapped. it will try and get an image for every 10 seconds from
> > memory so number should be going up by 10k each run). maybe check the
> > strace log and see what the child processes are exiting with (0 for
> > success? something else?).
> 
> On the terminal where I ran strace I saw that it keeps spawning new 
> processes, see a part of the output:
> strace: Process 31513 attached
> strace: Process 31514 attached
> strace: Process 31515 attached
> strace: Process 31516 attached
> strace: Process 31517 attached
> 
> Consider that this is the end of the output, the first pid was 22042.
> 
> The command should be this:
> execve("/opt/e17/lib/evas/utils/evas_image_loader.avi", 
> ["/opt/e17/lib/evas/utils/evas_ima"..., 
> "/home/max/Video/Boulevard.2014.B"..., "-head", "-key", "3340000"], [/* 
> 65 vars */] <unfinished ...>

well thats at about 55 minutes... so if that video is about 55 or so minutes
long... then it actually finished - right? processes went away. they finished
thumbnailing. they just took a while... you should have seen a LOt of execve
calls with different params...

so the issue is more that you have 6 processes around. there is a limit. why
isn't it working?

> >> after I close rage. FWIU there should be a limit in how much cpu the
> >> thumbnailing processes can take, or a limit in the number of
> >
> > it sets the priority of the video thumb to 10 - the higher the priority
> > value the less likely the system will be to assign cpu to it - or that's
> > how it should work. this should be inherited by child processes too. this
> > is the nice value fyi (it uses setpriority() - see manual page):
> >
> > "The default nice value is {NZERO}; lower nice values shall  cause  more
> > favorable   scheduling."
> >
> >> thumbnailing processes which can be run at the same time, or at the very
> >> least an option to turn off thumbnailing. I understand that my PC is
> >> quite old (6 years), but I would like to keep using it as much as
> >> possible :)
> >
> > i'm not going to make it an option. thumbnailing of videos is central ro
> > rage and being able to know what on earth you are dealing with. you haven't
> > seen the browser mode yet then where it'll be plainly obvious that no
> > thumbnail makes the ui pretty poor. it's central tot he ui design.
> 
> Indeed I'm using rage from quite a long time and thumbnailing has always 
> been there, this problem started recently so I guess there is no point 
> in disabling thumbnailing :)

yeah. i'd like to fix and know what's going on rather than stick my head int he
sand and "make it an option" to turn it off.

> >>>>>> If it would segvs i would do it via a "bt" command in gdb, but it
> >>>>>> doesn't crash and also rage_thumb keeps running in multiple processes
> >>>>>> when I stop rage, so how should I trace its activities?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> ^^^^^ you can attach to an existing process any time. when you attach
> >>>>> the process will be paused. you can grab a bt then. you can let it
> >>>>> continue running with "c" (continue) cmd any time. you can pause it
> >>>>> again with ctrl +c in gdb an get another backtrace. switch stack frame
> >>>>> with "fr N" where N matches the backtrace number. list the code where
> >>>>> you are at with "l". list a specific line number in that file in
> >>>>> context with "l 1234". print a variable you see with "p varname"
> >>>>> dereference a pointer (like c/c++ does all the time) with "p *varname"
> >>>>> or if its a struct geta  member with "p varname->member". gdb will even
> >>>>> be able to tab complete these like a shell does with files. :)
> >>>>>
> >>>>> learning gdb is a very powerful thing. you can find out so much useful
> >>>>> info about a process... :)
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Thanks
> >>>>>>>> Massimo
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) ha scritto il 20/08/2016 alle 05:45:
> >>>>>>>>> So here is a new release of Rage.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> It is a simple video and audio player intended to be slick yet
> >>>>>>>>> simplistic, much like Mplayer. You can provide 1 or more files to
> >>>>>>>>> play on the command-line or just DND files onto the rage window to
> >>>>>>>>> insert them into the playlist. You can get a visual representation
> >>>>>>>>> of everything on the playlist by hitting the / key, or just
> >>>>>>>>> hovering your mouse over the right side of the window. Mouse back
> >>>>>>>>> over the left side of the window to dismiss it or press the key
> >>>>>>>>> again. It has a full complement of key controls if you see the
> >>>>>>>>> README for the full list. It will automatically search for album
> >>>>>>>>> art for music files, if not already cached, and display that. It
> >>>>>>>>> even generates thumbnails for the timeline of a video and allows
> >>>>>>>>> you to preview the position on mouseover of the position bar at the
> >>>>>>>>> bottom of the window.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> If you run it without any files as arguments, it will go into
> >>>>>>>>> "browser" mode where it will index $HOME/Videos and basically become
> >>>>>>>>> a simple media center.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> A feature list at this point:
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>   * Play video and audio files
> >>>>>>>>>   * Support a playlist via command-line
> >>>>>>>>>   * Insert to playlist via DND
> >>>>>>>>>   * Controls hide on mouse idle, and appear on mouse movement
> >>>>>>>>>   * Fullscreen mode support with automatic "no blank" support
> >>>>>>>>>   * Playlist visual previews and controls
> >>>>>>>>>   * Subtitle file support
> >>>>>>>>>   * Supports Gstreamer 0.10, Gstreamer 1.x, Xine and VLC as media
> >>>>>>>>> engines via Emotion modules
> >>>>>>>>>   * Selection of media back-end via command-line
> >>>>>>>>>   * Album art fetch and caching
> >>>>>>>>>   * Video thumbnail timeline generation and caching
> >>>>>>>>>   * Works with any Evas engine (OpenGL acceleration, pure software
> >>>>>>>>> etc.)
> >>>>>>>>>   * Works in X11, Wayland and Framebuffer direct support
> >>>>>>>>>   * Accelerated seek on keyboard fowrard/reverse
> >>>>>>>>>   * Drag gestures for seeking
> >>>>>>>>>   * Special different UI modes for pure audio and video
> >>>>>>>>>   * Media center browser/indexer mode
> >>>>>>>>>   * Simeline thumbails of videos get generated and displayed when
> >>>>>>>>> over seek bar
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> If you want to see more go to the about page at
> >>>>>>>>> https://www.enlightenment.org/p.php?p=about/rage
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> http://download.enlightenment.org/rel/apps/rage/rage-0.2.0.tar.gz
> >>>>>>>>> http://git.enlightenment.org/apps/rage.git
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> --
> >>>>>>>> Massimo Maiurana
> >>>>>>>> Ragusa (RG)
> >>>>>>>>
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> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> --
> >>>>>> Massimo Maiurana
> >>>>>> Ragusa (RG)
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> Massimo Maiurana
> >>>> Ragusa (RG)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Massimo Maiurana
> >> Ragusa (RG)
> >>
> >
> >
> 
> 
> -- 
> Massimo Maiurana
> Ragusa (RG)
> 


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