[mythtv-users] X taking up 98% of CPU on frontend only machine

Phill Edwards philledwards at gmail.com
Wed Feb 1 20:12:39 UTC 2006


> There might be a clue here, in that the interface on the separate frontend is
> very slow when I compare it to the combined frontend/backend machine.

Perhaps you're not using XVMC on the f/e machine - that can chew up
CPU big time. I'm not sure of the best way to check if you're using
XVMC but one way is to use VNC to see the X-Window from another PC. If
you can see the playback from the PC running the VNC client then
you're not using XVMC. If you see a blank blue screen on playback then
you are.

I'm sure there are easier ways.


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