#26 Bam!Bam! file open complications

[Anonymous]

When I open more than three audio files with Bam!Bam! 0.9.5
with R5 Tracker, everything works fine. With OpenTracker
5.1.5, three first files open normally, but the fourth lags
for about 45 seconds between window creation and audio
loading, and the same applies to following windows. CPU usage
is only ~7% at this time, and ProcessController shows that
memory is reserved by Bam!Bam! during this pause in only very
small trickle, less than 100K total reserved during the whole
pause, and then it eats memory at normal 10+ MB per second.

After I had suspected OT to be the problem, I tested this. I
had my system fully installed with OT, and the pause occured.
Then I copied the three files from my R5 Pro CD (Deskbar,
Tracker and libtracker.so), and there was no pause. Then I re-
installed OT, and the problem was there again.

Mikko Heikkinen
mhei@mail.com

[Axel Dörfler]

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Strange BeOS... do you have access to older releases of
OpenTracker? Especially those before the move to SourceForge?
(not that there have been any changes in that regard that I am
aware of.)
Thanks!

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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I tried OpenTracker 5.1.4, LocaleTracker 1.3.1 and the latest
OpenTracker.NewFS (it said it was version 5.1bxy), and they all had
the same problem as OT 5.1.5.

LocaleTracker 1.2.9 (based on OT.NewFS 17 and OpenTracker 5.2b283)
and OpenTracker 5.1.0 showed the same problem, only as lesser: the
pause started with the 7th file (and not 4th), and the pauses were
only 15-25 seconds each.

I'm not using any swap (made the boot partition too small on
purpose), but with 608 megs of RAM I never need it.

Mikko Heikkinen
mhei@mail.com

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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And my previous experience says that Bam!Bam! doen't use swap, even
if it was available.

Mikko Heikkinen
mhei@mail.com