[mythtv-users] Race condition

Jarod Wilson jcw at wilsonet.com
Mon Oct 25 20:31:40 UTC 2004


On Tuesday 05 October 2004 23:02, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> On Oct 5, 2004, at 22:09, Kyle Rose wrote:
> > My system is a dual Opteron 244 with 4G RAM.  If I don't hear anything
> > back, I'll do some digging next week; but I'd be interested in knowing
> > if anyone else has any insight.  FWIW, when it works, it's SO much
> > faster than IA32 mode: I can't even watch HDTV in IA32 mode, but in
> > AMD64 mode I have about 34% idle CPU.
>
> Can't help much, but thought I'd share some info that may or may not be
> insightful. Even in 64-bit mode, you're not getting very good
> performance. I regularly see 30% idle on an Athlon XP 3200, so I'd
> expect to see a helluva lot more idle time on a dual Opteron. I plan to
> try HDTV playback on a dual Athlon MP 2000 system here shortly, I'm
> wondering how it'll stack up...

Finally got around to this over the weekend. HDTV playback on my dual Athlon 
MP 2000 system (w/a GeForce 4 Ti 4600 for video, outputting to a 21" monitor) 
runs with the CPUs collectively about 55% idle.

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