[sparhawk]

Hi,

I've noticed for a year or so now that Nightingale will occasionally use 100% of one core. I have to restart it to release the core. I've noticed this occurring more frequently in the past few months, perhaps after a few minutes rather than hours.

In addition, when Nightingale starts up initially, it hovers at about 50% of a core (compared to Firefox at 3%, with 140 tabs open). I've tried disabling all add-ons, but it still uses about 50% of a core (I haven't tried to run it to 100%).

I installed nightingale from the repo (ppa:trebelnik-stefina/nightingale), and am using version 1.11.1.5~quantal (amd64).

Thanks in advance.

Addendum: it might be related to this similar problem.

[ilikenwf]

This is probably because we're using an old xulrunner in current releases. We're working on porting to the current one, but progress is slow because we don't have a lot of devs.

It will be much more "firefox-like" once we get to the current xulrunner release.

[sparhawk]

Ah okay. So do you also see 100% usage occasionally? If it's a "known bug" then fine, but I just wanted to be sure that it wasn't something specific to my system (and hence potentially fixable now). Thanks.

[ilikenwf]

I don't know that I do personally...

A lot of the time I find that issues like this end up being because the client wasn't compiled on the distro it's running on, or the distro it's running on has a newer version of libraries we use. That can cause issues sometimes...it may just mean it's time for a rebuild of trunk on Ubuntu...

[sparhawk]

Okay, fair enough. I'll wait patiently.
I have got 8 cores on my laptop, so it's not absolutely dire, but the constantly maxed-out fan is a little tiring! Thanks for the replies.

[tibitts]

High CPU utilization has also been discussed in this thread.
http://forum.getnightingale.com/thread-603.html

Things have improved slightly with Nightingale 1.12, but it still causes a higher CPU load, even when not playing anything at all.
Using openSUSE 12.3 here. I've added a screenshot to visualize the load caused by Nightingale, and how the load drops when closing it.

[sparhawk]

I actually felt that 1.12 might have solved it for me, but I can't say this with any certainty, since I've not used 1.12 much because of the play-count bug.

[tibitts]

It seems the high CPU problem doesn't occur anymore with a self-compiled Nightingale 1.12.1 nightly version.
Now just hoping the play count issue is going to be fixed soon.