[mythtv-users] "events/1" causing 100% CPU usage, choppy video

Jim Cuzella TrinitronX at gmail.com
Sat Jan 10 22:49:48 UTC 2009


Greetings,

Today while watching TV, suddenly playback slowed to a crawl and sound
capture stopped completely.
A quick look at running processes using "top" showed that "events/1" run
by root is taking up 100% CPU.  What is this process?  It is making
mythtv unusable.

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
   10 root      15  -5     0    0    0 R  100  0.0   3:19.10 events/1
10881 mythtv    20   0  502m  48m  12m S   19  2.4  10:33.79 mythbackend
10907 trinitro  20   0  862m 294m  54m R    6 14.7   9:34.91 mythfrontend.re
 3790 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    1  0.0   0:21.34 md0_raid5
 6323 root      20   0  156m  62m  28m S    0  3.1   1:52.61 Xorg
    1 root      20   0  4100  908  616 S    0  0.0   0:01.10 init
    2 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kthreadd
    3 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 migration/0
    4 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.32 ksoftirqd/0
    5 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/0
    6 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 migration/1
    7 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.76 ksoftirqd/1
    8 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/1
    9 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.58 events/0
   11 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 khelper
   49 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kintegrityd/0
   50 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kintegrityd/1


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