[mythtv-users] Giving mythfrontend a higher priority

[Friedrich Clausen]

Hello,

On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Owen Townend <owen.townend at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/10/3 Robert <RobertCL at iname.com>:
>> On Fri, October 3, 2008 4:34 am, Bobby Gill wrote:
>>> I use mythfrontend on one monitor in a dual monitor setup and am wondering
>>> how to give it a higher priority/lower nice level as I usually am working
>>> on
>>> a doc/surfing/whatever on the other monitor and sometimes the task causes
>>> playback in mythfrontend to stutter/pause briefly (definitely not common
>>> but
>>> happens).
>>
>> You could just "renice" it - something like:
>>
>> sudo renice -20 `pidof mythfrontend`
> [snip]
>
> You could also create a launcher/shortcut for 'gksudo nice -n -10
> mythfrontend' which should do the trick.

You can also give MythTV realtime priority - see

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Optimizing_Performance#Realtime_Threads

Cheers,

Fred.

>
> cheers,
> Owen.
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