Ubuntu – Timidity Hogging CPU, Ubuntu 16.04

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On Ubuntu 16.04,timidity -0s -iAD is hogging one of my CPU cores. Looking in pstree, systemd is the parent process. This has been happening when awaking my laptop from sleep. I also cannot kill 15 or kill 9 the process Operation not permitted. Happy to post other logs etc if needed.

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Best Answer

I have a similar problem with timidity spinning on 14.04.

It worked to do sudo killall -9 timidity. You need the sudo because the process is owned by the timidity userid.

I see a comment at at http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php?topic=124239.0 about something like this in KDE after logout, and a fix involving $HOME/.kde4/shutdown/MidExit which should say killall -9 timidity &

But though I use KDE on 14.04, I don't see a line like that, and I haven't logged out since reboot.

I reported it at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/timidity/+bug/1638341

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