[mythtv-users] mythfrontend uses 99% of cpu, unusable (SVN 15267, Gentoo)

[R. G. Newbury]

Justin wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "R. G. Newbury" <newbury at mandamus.org>
> Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 4:34 AM
> To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] mythfrontend uses 99% of cpu, unusable (SVN 
> 15267, Gentoo)
> 
>> Justin wrote:
>>
>>> --------------------------------------------------
>>> From: "R. G. Newbury" <newbury at mandamus.org>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 10:18 AM
>>> To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
>>> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] mythfrontend uses 99% of cpu, unusable (SVN
>>> 15267, Gentoo)
>>>
>>>> Justin wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> I'm having a problem where when I run mythfrontend on my laptop it uses
>>>>> around 99% of the cpu, runs so slow it's unusable. The computer is 
>>>>> mostly
>>>>> to slow to be usable also at the time. I have to kill it over SSH to
>>>>> return things to normal.
>>>>> I'm running SVN revision 15267 on Gentoo Linux 2006.1.
>>>>> I recently did an update of most of the packages installed so that 
>>>>> maybe
>>>>> what messed it up. I did recompile mythtv to see if it would help but 
>>>>> it
>>>>> didn't.
>>>>> I also tried running it with -v all and -v most and it appears it's 
>>>>> doing
>>>>> everything just fine except for using most of the cpu and making
>>>>> everything unusable.
>>>>> It doesn't appear to be hanging. I also tried different themepainters
>>>>> via -O.
>>>>> Anyone have any idea what could be the problem or how I might figure it
>>>>> out?
>>>>> Justin
>>>>>
>>>> What is the video chipset? and the processor.
>>>> You do not say whether this box did better previously. If so, you
>>>> probably have missed setting the ./configure switches correctly.
>>>> More basically, your video driver may not be set up correctly. A via
>>>> video chipset without openchrome is ssslllloooowww.
>>>> Need more information...
>>> Yes it was working correctly before.
>>> The processer is a Intel Pentium 4 M 3.06 Ghz and the video card is a
>> ATI
>>> Radeon IGP 330M/344M/340M (As listed in lspci).
>>> I recently have upgraded a bunch of packages including the kernal,
>> beryl to
>>> compiz. I also installed things like pulseaudio.
>>> It worked just fine after the kernel upgrade and install of compiz. It
>>> wasn't until around the install of pulseaudio that it stopped worked.
>> I just
>>> tried removing pulseaudio as my default alsa default but it didn't help.
>>> Justin
>>>
>> Please don't top-post.
>>
>> I think you have pointed to your problem. Pulseaudio is definitely not
>> yet ready for prime time. It was installed by default on my Fedora 8
>> setup and I had to remove it as I could not get audio to work.
>>
>> And obviously, the box is capable of doing what you want.
>>
>> I suggest you try an 'apt-get remove pulse*' or whatever. Otherwise, if
>> it wasn't your laptop, but a dedicated system, I would suggest a mythtv
>> database backup and re-install. But I strongly suspect that your laptop
>> has a large number of other programs on it.
>>
>> No easy answers to this. as ISTR that removing pulse was a pain,
>> although I cannot remember the details of what I did (and it likely
>> would be of no help to you anyway due to the different distro).
> 
> Sorry about the top post. I'll try bottom posting in this post and see if it 
> works.
> I haven't used a mailing list for a while and I forgot about making sure to 
> bottom post.
> I just tried removing pulseaudio and it didn't help.
> I then tried rebooting and it worked. I don't know why I didn't think of it 
> before.
> I'm just reinstalled pulseaudio as I'm using the network audio feature.
> It appears pulseaudo does work with mythtv.
> Something just needed to be restarted after an update.

You need a checklist. You should know by now that you need to perform 
the correct sacrifice after making changes and before 
re-booting..otherwise the magic leaks away!


Geoff