[mythtv-users] Mythfrontend and Mythbackend using 100% cpu

Jarod C. Wilson jcw at wilsonet.com
Wed Jan 28 13:18:36 EST 2004


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On Wednesday 28 January 2004 06:16, Shane Warren wrote:
> I'm wondering if anyone is seeing the same problem as I'm having.  I
> have the cvs of mythtv as of  Jan 25th, 2004.  Also running ivtv 0.1.9
> the latest release as of the 25th.  My hardware is as follows:
>
> 2 PVR250MCE encoder cards
> GF4MX440 graphics card
> AMD 2500+ cpu, 512M ram, nforce2 MB
>
> I have everything up and running fine
> (mythtv,dvd,news,weather,video,music) and I can watch and record TV
> fine.... at least for a while.  When I leave the box after firing up
> live TV and come back to it hours later (lets say 4-8 hours not sure how
> long it takes for this to happen) the audio/video is choppy and behind
> real-time by quite a bit.  Now if I ssh into the box and check the cpu
> w/ top, I see the mythbackend and mythfrontend are competing for the
> CPU, mythfrontend using ~49% and mythbackend using ~49%.  At this point
> I always have to kill the mythfrontend process then restart it, and
> everything is happy again until I start live tv and leave it on for a
> couple hours again.  It doesn't appear to be an ivtv problem since I get
> no kernel logs reported while this is happening.  I have tried turning
> every conceivable option on/off related to TV and it seems to not make
> any difference.  Can anyone offer any suggestions please?

The only thing that comes to mind is to double-check which video drivers 
you're using. If you're somehow running the nv driver instead of the nvidia 
driver, you'd definitely see cpu usage like that...

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