[mythtv-users] Mac Mini Core Solo as FE/BE Combo?

[Michael Freeman]

On 3/21/07, Jarod Wilson <jarod at wilsonet.com> wrote:
>
> On Sunday 11 March 2007 22:36:26 Byron Poland wrote:
> > On 2/26/07, Jarod Wilson <lists at wilsonet.com> wrote:
> > > Another follow-up... Until earlier tonight, my current frontend box
> > > actually had 2GB of RAM in it. I dropped it down to 1GB, and with
> > > blootube-wide as my GUI theme at 1920x1080p, swapping has returned.
> > > Playback is still generally smooth, but doesn't seem to start up as
> > > instantaneously. Its especially noticeable exiting a recording and/or
> > > the recordings screen, when it takes a second or two for the whole
> > > screen to repaint and the hard drive led flashes like mad. I'm now
> > > debating getting 2GB of RAM for my duo mini instead of just 1GB...
> >
> > Any word on how the 1.66 duo did outputing to 1080p? (with Myth on
> > Linux or OSX) I'm thinking of getting one.
>
> Been tied up with other stuff, the mini has just been sitting around doing
> nothing for the pas two weeks. Finally got the memory ordered late last
> week,
> supposed to be here today...
>
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> Jarod Wilson
> jarod at wilsonet.com
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I put a T7200 in my former Core Solo Mini and got Gentoo on it.
Playing the season premiere of 24 over the network from my current active
master backend worked really smoothly....according to top, one core was
pegged by X and the other was at 30% - used by mythfrontend.
IIRC, this was 720p.

Any suggestions as to what I might have messed up to make X suck down so
much CPU?
It seems somewhat high.
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