I installed kubuntu-desktop and checked it out. The problem remains the same.
But some more testing: I cleared my playlist (which previously had all my music files listed), and the problem went away. Amarok starts almost instantaneously. I don't know why I didn't try that before. The more music files there are in my playlist, the longer the slowdown / lockup is during start. If I load about 1/4 of all files (ca. 1100), the slowdown is also 1/4 of the time (15 sec compared to 60 sec). So it doesn't seem to be a specific file that causes this, but the loading of the playlist in general. I want to emphasize again, that the gnome system monitor applet does not show any hard drive activity (when I remove everything from my playlist/collection, and then add the music folders again to my collection, there is of course visible hard drive activity). My music folder is on a FAT32 partition. But I copied a part of the files to a completely different HDD/partition (ext3 vs FAT32, SATA vs IDE, Samsung vs. Seagate, 8MB vs 2MB buffer), and it did not make any difference at all (16 vs 15 sec starting time). I don't think the directory structure makes any difference at all, because overall, I have quite a few directories and subdirs, sorted by Interpret and Album, but I have one big directory where 1000 files exist without subdirectories. This is the folder that I mentioned above, the loading time was almost exactly linear to the playlist size. Is there a better (easy) way to exactly measure the hard drive activity during the start of a program? Can you recommend any other tests that I could run? -- amarok uses 100% CPU for 60sec at startup in gnome https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/108573 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Team, which is a bug contact for amarok in ubuntu. -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs
