[mythtv-users] Is the GUI slow for everyone or just for me?

[t+mythtv]

My load's normal, very low.  I do seem to have to restart mythbackend 
once a day or so for some unexplained reason, but that's probably a 
separate issue.  I've noticed the redhat swap usage seems to steadily 
increase until the point that most of both swap and ram are in use, even 
though disk buffers consume half the ram.  I think that's been a problem 
in every redhat kernel later than redhat 7.2.  Very, very annoying.  On 
my system at home I usually either reboot when it gets too bad or shut 
down most things and then run a swapoff -a followed by a swapon -a.  It 
doesn't help that X also seems to have a mem leak somewhere and over the 
course of a week or too will consume more and more memory.

I'll be buying more RAM soon, but my problem is that it's going to be 
pretty expensive for this particular hardware.  (800MHz RDRAM, only one 
slot).  But hey, the computer itself was free, so I can't complain too 
much. :-)

Scott Francis wrote:

>Check the load on your system.  I've noticed a bug that after a few weeks worth of runtime without rebooting my system load continues to creep up.  This is due to my swap size constantly increasing and the drive starts swapping like mad.  After a reboot obviously this clears things up.  I think the bug that affects this will be fixed in the .15 release.
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>If your load is a normal one (below .2) then I'm not sure why it's so slow.  I usually get very responsive results from my Athlon 2100 with 256mb RAM.
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>Scott
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
>[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org]On Behalf Of Grant Edwards
>Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 7:47 PM
>To: Discussion about mythtv
>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Is the GUI slow for everyone or just for me?
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>>I'm wondering, how responsive is the mythtv gui for most people?
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>Most of the time it's a bit slow, but OK. I'm running 0.14 on a
>1GHz C3 running the X driver on a PVR-350.  Sometimes it takes
>several seconds for somthing to happen when I push a button on
>the remote.
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>>On my system most parts are what I would call "very slow".  To put that 
>>more quantitatively, switching to the list of recorded programs when I 
>>click on "Recorded Programs" takes at least 15 seconds.  Bringing up 
>>MythWeather usually takes about 15 seconds too.  Moving around even 
>>within the same screen (ie cursor'ing up and down) is a "press a key and 
>>wait" activity, with the highlight change taking probably a quarter of a 
>>second for each button.
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>While bringing up the recordings list or deleting a file takes
>several seconds, moving around within the setup menus is pretty
>crisp.  Sometimes it takes a few seconds for the "delete" menu
>to come up after viewing a recording.  Sometimes hitting the
>"delete" option doesn't give any noticable response for several
>seconds.
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>>How long does it take for you to get a list of recorded programs using 
>>mythfrontend?
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>A few seconds usually.  15 sounds pretty long.
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