[mythtv-users] Does 0.20 take a beefier machine?

[Craig Partin]

On 10/9/06, Chris Moewes-Bystrom <chris.moewes at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have lag with both painters.  For most transitions it is just as
> > fast but going into watch recordings or music or schedule there is a
> > long (15 sec) delay.  Also, IIRC there was button feedback to let you
> > know you had pressed it.  In the Myth Center theme the button
> > higlighting would dissappear.  I surfed through some other themes last
> > night and they all displayed this behavior.
>
> Is it possible that it's not just related to the painting of the menu?
> When entering into the recordings and the music menus the system has
> to execute some SQL to get the information to display before it can
> even start to display it. Is it possible that is causing some of the
> delay? I wonder if you could do something like turning on mysql query
> caching to see if accessing the same menu twice is faster the second
> time (assuming that the query can be cached). Might also be
> interesting to dump the recorded table, then truncate it and see if it
> acts the same (then of course reload it from the backup).
>
>

I doubt that is the issue.  I have been running the same backend
hardware and mysql version since Jan 2005.  This has never been an
issue before, across probably 3 myth upgrades.  The one thing I did
change was an upgrade to modular X when I did the .20 upgrade.