[mythtv-users] lirc_dev high cpu time

lord_darkhelmet at accesscomm.ca lord_darkhelmet at accesscomm.ca
Fri Jun 8 18:42:56 UTC 2007


Yes, you are correct.  It was 50min 32sec total time.  Still seems rather high.


Quoting "Michael T. Dean" <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>:

> On 06/08/2007 01:01 PM, Lord Darkhelmet wrote:
> > I have just noticed that lirc_dev is using about 1% of the cpu at all
> > times and after 3 days running has accumulated 50hrs time on the cpu.
> > Is this a normal thing to expect?  I'm using a PVR-150 card with the
> > on-board IR and kernel version is 2.6.18-1.2239.fc5.   My other myth
> > frontend is using a serial lirc device and does not have the same issue.
>
> To get 50 hours of CPU time in 72 hours of real time would require a
> process to use an average of 70% CPU usage during the entire 72 hours.
> However, interestingly enough, using only 1.15% CPU averaged over 72
> hours, the process should accumulate 50 /minutes/ of CPU time.
>
> Are you sure you read the ps output properly?
>
> Mike
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