[mythtv-users] Higer load in .20

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Quoting Derek Meek <thekazan at gmail.com>:

> barchanski at poczta.fm wrote:
>
>> Cory Papenfuss napisa?(a):
>>
>>
>>> On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, list at onnow.net wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> I think there may be a bit more system required for .20
>>>> RAM especially I think.
>>>> This system is a an AMD 3200 with 512 running FC5 and .20 via RPMS.
>>>> On this top, there is nothing running other than mythfrontend.
>>>> No encoders are recording.  Live TV may be on but that is it.
>>>> Check this TOP out.  Any better ways to diagnose what the load/mem use
>>>>
>>>>
>>> is?
>>>
>>>
>>>> top - 08:22:37 up 1 day, 15:23,  3 users,  load average: 2.11, 1.82,
>>>>
>>>>
>>> 1.70
>>>
>>>
>>>> Tasks: 134 total,   1 running, 132 sleeping,   0 stopped,   1 zombie
>>>> Cpu(s): 50.7% us,  2.3% sy,  0.0% ni, 37.1% id,  9.9% wa,  0.0% hi,
>>>> 0.0% si,  0Mem:    450424k total,   445076k used,     5348k free,
>>>> 1364k buffers
>>>> Swap:  1052216k total,   272108k used,   780108k free,    83464k cached
>>>>
>>>>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
>>>> 21181 mythtv    15   0  234m  98m  23m S 49.5 22.4 282:16.81
>>>>
>>>>
>>> mythfrontend
>>>
>>>
>>>>  2466 root      16   0  126m 101m 2452 S  3.0 23.0  12:12.81 Xorg
>>>>
>>>>
>>> 	This is a bit disturbing.  I have been able to run mythtv on no
>>> more than a PIII-733 or 866 since I started playing with it almost 3 years
>>>
>>> ago.  Is this just the OpenGL gui that sucks so much cpu?  It seems a bit
>>>
>>> excessive to require 2GHz machine for SDTV...
>>>
>>> -Cory
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> I have also noticed that playing LiveTV on .20 requires approx. 2   
>> time more CPU than on 0.19 (before - 20% of my Geode NX 1750, now   
>> 40%)
>>
>> Memory use also seem to have increased, now swap is at 120 MB, what  
>>  I never experienced before (on a 512 MB machine without KDE  
>> running  not so much memory is required).
>>
>> BTW, mythtv says the painter of menus is QT, and so it looks. It   
>> would be therefore quite strange if increased CPU use was because   
>> of OpenGL, if it is actually not used...
>>
>> Andrzej
>>
>>
>>
>>
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> I believe the new OpenGL drawing subsystem is off by default
>
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