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

[Justin]

From: "R. G. Newbury" <newbury at mandamus.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 9:28 PM
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: 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
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What? That doesn't seem to make sense.
Justin