[CFT] New version of webcamd, now v4.8.0.2

Hans Petter Selasky hps at selasky.org
Fri Aug 19 13:53:02 UTC 2016


On 08/19/16 15:42, Otacílio wrote:
> Dears, I'm facing a huge CPU usage in the follow scenario:
>
> I'm using a 11.0-RC1 amd64 in vbox guest. The virtualbox-ose-additions
> is 5.0.26. When I'm sharing my notebook integrated webcam with guest I
> noted a increase of kernel CPU usage.  But, when I open the webcam the
> CPU usage increases at a point that the machine starts to freeze. The
> camera works but the frame rate is low. I was using the version from
> ports with this behavior but this new version stay with the same
> problem. If I remember, with virtualbox series 4 this problem not
> happens.  So, can it be a webcamd or is really a new version of
> virtualbox problem?
>

Hi,

Try to run "usbdump -i usbusX -f Y" where X and Y are the numbers after 
ugenX.Y for your webcam device. It will reveal all USB traffic. Maybe 
some USB transfers are looping infinitely using up CPU.

--HPS



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