Hey all, Recently artsd has been shutting off with the error "CPU overload". It doesn't seem to matter what I'm running. It'll do this at random times even if no sound is being processed. I've even tried logging into KDE3 and not starting up any extra programs, just KDE with a few applets (none sound related). The CPU Overload error/shutdown of artsd occurs very randomly... sometimes within a minute of starting KDE, sometimes up to two hours before it occurs. I also have KDE set up so no sounds play except when KDE starts up or is shut down. Even shut off the system bell for the Konsole. I can see when it's going to happen because the CPU monitor applet suddenly shows heavy CPU usage. I've used kpm to see what's running and I see nothing that would be making Arts do this. But artsd itself will show heavy system usage when this occurs just before it shuts down. I'm using the latest KDE3 RPMs taken from the SuSE server, which includes arts-1.0.1-13.rpm . (Using SuSE 7.3 Pro) To make matters worse, if I "artsd start" after this happens, it'll start fine, but all sounds are choppy when I do this so it's useless. And eventually at some random point it will do a CPU overload again. But leaving KDE and logging in again will restart arts without the choppy-sound problem. 1) Is this an arts issue, an issue with this particular RPM, or what? Where do I start to look in determining the problem? I'm almost certain this didn't start happening until I installed the latest build of that particular RPM, but I can't say that for certain. 2) Seems odd that starting KDE (and thus it starts artsd) doesn't cause choppy sounds, but if I do "artsd start" it gets choppy. This happens even if I "artsd stop" then start it again, not just after a CPU overload issue. Does KDE set some specific options for artsd when it starts arts itself that I should be doing as well? Later, Joe "Flame" Sullivan -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Firechild Web Design and CGI Scripting Services http://firechild.net Secretary, World Association of Internet Marketing http://waim.org Webmaster, Amerikanska - For Americans In Sweden http://amerikanska.com Meta-editor, Open Directory Project http://dmoz.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------