[mythtv-users] increasing load

[Joe Ripley]

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 11:43 PM, Udo van den Heuvel <udovdh at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>  > see if there's any unusual disk activity.
>  Just streaming of a few mbit/s of three lowish bitrate TV-channels plus
>  the normal mythtv/mysql interaction.

Are any of your recordings being stored/accessed via an NFS share?
This could also increase the load if the CPU is waiting for network
I/O.

>  The memory consumption of the backend is also increasing.

Has the system started to use any of the swap yet?  Swapping will
definitely increase the load, however, it would also slow the machine
down considerably.

Does the load drop back to zero when you shut off mythbackend and mythfrontend?

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Joe Ripley
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