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

[Jarod Wilson]

On Wednesday 21 March 2007 17:16:25 Michael Freeman wrote:
> 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...
>
> 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.

Which X driver are you using there? i810 or intel? You want the intel driver. 
I'm using the latest and greatest with xorg 7.2-ish.

As for my progress... I got the 2GB of RAM into my mini last night, and at 
1680x1050 resolution, playback of both 720p and 1080i stuff looks damned 
good. Didn't check cpu usage, but I doubt its all that different than before, 
likely just less iowait from swapping. Going to hook it up to my 1080p HDTV 
tonight to see how it fares there...

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com