[mythtv-users] High load, low CPU usage
Shawn
core at enodev.com
Sun Jul 13 20:45:21 EDT 2003
You might be experiencing scheduler starvation. What kernel are you
using? (uname -r, but if you're using myth, you already know that)
On Sat, 2003-07-12 at 15:06, Steve Hill wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Jul 2003, Steve Hill wrote:
>
> > I've just fiddled some BIOS settings and managed to get it to assign the
> > sound cards separate IRQs. I think this may have reduced (or possibly
> > even resolved) the problem, but I need to test it for a while longer.
>
> Nope, it doesn't seem to have fixed the problem :(
> The really odd thing is that sometimes it will run quite happilly with
> fairly minimal load (under 0.30) for an hour or more at a time and then
> other times it really loads up. :(
>
> Another top output below, but it doesn't really show a lot...
>
> 9:04pm up 52 min, 3 users, load average: 3.73, 2.05, 1.35
> 132 processes: 125 sleeping, 7 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
> CPU states: 29.1% user, 0.7% system, 0.0% nice, 70.0% idle
> Mem: 255492K av, 252044K used, 3448K free, 0K shrd, 16156K buff
> Swap: 530136K av, 64736K used, 465400K free 86336K cached
>
> PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
> 1633 root -1 -20 57216 35M 5104 S < 22.5 14.1 2:12 mythbackend
> 1685 root 11 0 302M 24M 13192 R 4.3 9.6 2:05 X
> 1874 steve 9 0 43504 42M 19804 R 2.5 16.8 0:36 mythfrontend
> 1851 steve 9 0 3364 3364 1928 S 0.1 1.3 0:00 sawfish
> 1 root 8 0 480 448 428 S 0.0 0.1 0:04 init
> 2 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 keventd
> 3 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kapmd
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