[mythtv-users] USB video input card

Greg Cope gregcope at gmail.com
Mon Nov 23 08:41:29 UTC 2009


More Revo stats, just to keep you all entertained.  Not very scentific
as I have only taken one snapshot per test for 5 secs.

Anyway;

Watch Live TV (CBBC);

08:21:08 up 17:19,  2 users,  load average: 0.64, 0.73, 0.62

greg at s:~$ vmstat 5
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu----
 r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in   cs us sy id wa
 0  0   3420  14320  71996 943296    0    0     3    57   89  162  2  1 96  1
 0  0   3420  14816  71972 942904    0    0     0   734 1316 2015  8  9 83  1
 0  0   3480  18528  71976 938876    0   12     0   548 1341 2077  7  8 83  1
 0  0   3480  15428  72024 941788    0    0     0   689 1322 2026  7  9 83  1
 1  0   3480  16296  71996 940912    0    0     0   795 1394 2076  6 10 82  1
 0  0   3480  14788  72024 942604    0    0     0   725 1406 2052  4 12 83  1
 0  0   3532  14788  71996 942752    0   10     0   577 1350 2037  4 11 84  1

iostat -x 5
avg-cpu:  %user   %nice %system %iowait  %steal   %idle
           3.97    0.00   11.82    0.86    0.00   83.35

Device:         rrqm/s   wrqm/s     r/s     w/s   rsec/s   wsec/s
avgrq-sz avgqu-sz   await  svctm  %util
sdb               0.00     0.40    0.00    0.60     0.00     8.00
13.33     0.01   16.67  16.67   1.00
sda               0.00   181.00    0.00    7.00     0.00  1496.00
213.71     0.07   10.29   8.57   6.00
sdd               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00
0.00     0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
sr0               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00
0.00     0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00

ATOP - s                  2009/11/23  08:22:43                5 seconds elapsed
PRC | sys   1.85s | user   1.09s | #proc    187 | #zombie    5 | #exit      0 |
CPU | sys      5% | user     21% | irq      40% | idle    330% | wait      4% |
cpu | sys      0% | user      1% | irq      41% | idle     53% | cpu000 w  4% |
cpu | sys      1% | user      8% | irq       0% | idle     91% | cpu002 w  0% |
cpu | sys      2% | user     11% | irq       0% | idle     88% | cpu001 w  0% |
cpu | sys      1% | user      1% | irq       0% | idle     97% | cpu003 w  0% |
CPL | avg1   0.72 | avg5    0.71 | avg15   0.62 | csw     9939 | intr    6642 |
MEM | tot    1.7G | free   14.0M | cache 921.4M | buff   70.2M | slab   72.1M |
SWP | tot    7.5G | free    7.4G |              | vmcom   1.2G | vmlim   8.3G |
PAG | scan    800 | stall      0 |              | swin       0 | swout      9 |
DSK |         sda | busy      6% | read       0 | write     35 | avio    8 ms |
DSK |         sdb | busy      0% | read       0 | write     10 | avio    1 ms |
NET | transport   | tcpi       1 | tcpo       2 | udpi       2 | udpo       2 |
NET | network     | ipi        3 | ipo        4 | ipfrw      0 | deliv      3 |
NET | eth0     0% | pcki       1 | pcko       4 | si    0 Kbps | so    3 Kbps |

  PID  SYSCPU  USRCPU  VGROW  RGROW  RDDSK  WRDSK  ST EXC S  CPU CMD     1/1
 1830   1.47s   0.67s     0K     0K     0K     0K  --   - S  41% mythfrontend.r
 1226   0.09s   0.37s     0K     0K     0K  3280K  --   - S   9% mythbackend
 1372   0.23s   0.01s     0K     0K     0K     0K  --   - R   5% Xorg
 5951   0.05s   0.03s     0K     0K     0K     0K  --   - R   2% atop
 3369   0.00s   0.01s     0K     0K     0K     0K  --   - S   0% hald-addon-sto
    4   0.01s   0.00s     0K     0K     0K     0K  --   - S   0% ksoftirqd/0
 1859   0.00s   0.00s     0K     0K     0K     0K  --   - S   0% gnome-power-ma
  970   0.00s   0.00s     0K   -28K     0K     0K  --   - S   0% hald
 1199   0.00s   0.00s     0K    -8K     0K     0K  --   - S   0% hald-runner
 3320   0.00s   0.00s     0K     0K     0K     0K  --   - S   0% usb-storage


Watching Live TV (CBBC), recording another Channel (BBC2)

uptime
 08:25:29 up 17:23,  2 users,  load average: 0.88, 0.80, 0.67

iostat -x 5
avg-cpu:  %user   %nice %system %iowait  %steal   %idle
           4.18    0.00    1.44    3.14    0.00   91.24

Device:         rrqm/s   wrqm/s     r/s     w/s   rsec/s   wsec/s
avgrq-sz avgqu-sz   await  svctm  %util
sdb               0.00     0.40    0.00    1.80     0.00    17.60
9.78     0.01    5.56   5.56   1.00
sda               0.00   393.60    0.00   13.80     0.00  3243.20
235.01     0.32   23.19   9.71  13.40
sdd               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00
0.00     0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
sr0               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00
0.00     0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00


Recording 1 stream (BBC2) , watching a recording (yesterdays topgear);

iostat -x 5
avg-cpu:  %user   %nice %system %iowait  %steal   %idle
           7.73    0.00    4.68    0.94    0.00   86.66

Device:         rrqm/s   wrqm/s     r/s     w/s   rsec/s   wsec/s
avgrq-sz avgqu-sz   await  svctm  %util
sdb               0.00     9.80    0.00    2.00     0.00    94.40
47.20     0.02    9.00   9.00   1.80
sda               0.00   177.00    3.00    6.20  1536.00  1457.60
325.39     0.09    9.78   9.13   8.40
sdd               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00
0.00     0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
sr0               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00
0.00     0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00

vmstat 5
$ vmstat 5
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu----
 r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in   cs us sy id wa
 0  0  11608  14864  33272 990884    0    0     4    60   93    2  2  1 96  1
 0  0  11608  13988  33020 992096    0    0   614   709 1334 1975 11  5 83  0
 0  0  11608  14532  32952 992236    0    0   563   914 1343 2059 11  6 82  1
 0  0  11608  14904  32868 992076    0    0   614   790 1337 2016 12  5 82  1
 1  0  11608  13912  32792 993880    0    0   819   768 1343 2045 12  6 82  1
 0  0  11608  14844  32692 993152    0    0   717   962 1336 1962 10  6 83  1
 1  0  11608  13728  32652 994444    0    0   461   772 1337 2067 10  6 84  1
 1  0  11608  14224  32588 994028    0    0   563   640 1326 1972 11  5 83  1
^C
greg at s:~$ uptime
 08:35:58 up 17:34,  2 users,  load average: 0.52, 0.74, 0.75



ATOP - s                  2009/11/23  08:30:43                5 seconds elapsed
PRC | sys   0.67s | user   2.58s | #proc    186 | #zombie    5 | #exit      0 |
CPU | sys      6% | user     50% | irq       7% | idle    333% | wait      4% |
cpu | sys      3% | user     36% | irq       8% | idle     50% | cpu000 w  3% |
cpu | sys      1% | user     13% | irq       0% | idle     85% | cpu003 w  0% |
cpu | sys      1% | user      2% | irq       0% | idle     96% | cpu002 w  1% |
cpu | sys      1% | user      0% | irq       0% | idle     98% | cpu001 w  0% |
CPL | avg1   0.98 | avg5    1.12 | avg15   0.85 | csw    10448 | intr    6849 |
MEM | tot    1.7G | free   14.3M | cache 943.2M | buff   43.3M | slab   64.7M |
SWP | tot    7.5G | free    7.4G |              | vmcom   1.2G | vmlim   8.3G |
PAG | scan   1568 | stall      0 |              | swin       0 | swout     16 |
DSK |         sda | busy      7% | read      12 | write     38 | avio    7 ms |
DSK |         sdb | busy      1% | read       0 | write     15 | avio    4 ms |
NET | transport   | tcpi       7 | tcpo       7 | udpi       0 | udpo       0 |
NET | network     | ipi        7 | ipo        7 | ipfrw      0 | deliv      7 |
NET | eth0     0% | pcki       7 | pcko       7 | si    0 Kbps | so    2 Kbps |

  PID  SYSCPU  USRCPU  VGROW  RGROW  RDDSK  WRDSK  ST EXC S  CPU CMD     1/1
 1830   0.43s   2.16s     0K     0K  3328K     0K  --   - S  50% mythfrontend.r
 1226   0.08s   0.38s     0K   -64K     0K  3616K  --   - S   9% mythbackend
 1372   0.08s   0.02s     0K     0K     0K     0K  --   - S   2% Xorg
 6001   0.07s   0.01s     0K     0K     0K     0K  --   - R   2% atop
 1637   0.00s   0.01s     0K     0K     0K    28K  --   - S   0% mysqld
 3320   0.01s   0.00s     0K     0K     0K     0K  --   - S   0% usb-storage
 1783   0.00s   0.00s     0K     0K     0K     0K  --   - S   0% mtd
 5880   0.00s   0.00s     0K     0K     0K     0K  --   - S   0% sshd
 3369   0.00s   0.00s     0K     0K     0K     0K  --   - S   0% hald-addon-sto
  365   0.00s   0.00s     0K     0K     0K    12K  --   - S   0% kjournald2
  600   0.00s   0.00s     0K     0K     0K     0K  --   - D   0% kjournald2






greg at s:~$ vmstat 5
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu----
 r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in   cs us sy id wa
 1  0   6776  14948  71800 934520    0    0     3    59   91  165  2  1 96  1
 1  0   6840  14700  71784 935192    0   13     0  1426 1604 2683  3  2 92  3
 0  0   6840  14824  71684 935052    0    0     0  1225 1616 2775  3  3 92  2
 0  0   6840  14948  71764 934892    0    0     0  1432 1614 2674  4  3 90  3
 1  0   6840  15072  71828 934684    0    0     0  1145 1616 2774  5  2 91  2
 0  0   6888  14824  71804 935120    0   10     0  1426 1618 2696  5  2 90  3
 0  0   6888  15072  69072 937796    0    0    26  1187 1686 2718  3  2 92  2
 0  0   6888  58196  66400 897824    0    0     0  1477 1620 2613  4  2 91  3
 0  0   6888  53236  66464 903132    0    0     0   990 1593 2658  4  2 92  2

TOP - s                  2009/11/23  08:28:13                5 seconds elapsed
PRC | sys   0.43s | user   0.76s | #proc    186 | #zombie    5 | #exit      2 |
CPU | sys      6% | user     16% | irq       6% | idle    363% | wait     10% |
cpu | sys      2% | user      4% | irq       6% | idle     78% | cpu000 w 10% |
cpu | sys      1% | user      6% | irq       0% | idle     93% | cpu002 w  0% |
cpu | sys      1% | user      5% | irq       0% | idle     94% | cpu003 w  0% |
cpu | sys      1% | user      1% | irq       0% | idle     98% | cpu001 w  0% |
CPL | avg1   2.12 | avg5    1.24 | avg15   0.84 | csw    13263 | intr    8169 |
MEM | tot    1.7G | free   17.1M | cache 920.8M | buff   59.1M | slab   67.3M |
SWP | tot    7.5G | free    7.4G |              | vmcom   1.2G | vmlim   8.3G |
PAG | scan   1952 | stall      0 |              | swin       0 | swout     15 |
DSK |         sda | busy     11% | read       0 | write     54 | avio   10 ms |
DSK |         sdb | busy      0% | read       1 | write      3 | avio    2 ms |
NET | transport   | tcpi       1 | tcpo       1 | udpi       0 | udpo       0 |
NET | network     | ipi        1 | ipo        1 | ipfrw      0 | deliv      1 |
NET | eth0     0% | pcki       1 | pcko       1 | si    0 Kbps | so    2 Kbps |

  PID  SYSCPU  USRCPU  VGROW  RGROW  RDDSK  WRDSK  ST EXC S  CPU CMD     1/1
 1226   0.11s   0.53s     0K    -8K     0K  6204K  --   - S  13% mythbackend
 1830   0.19s   0.21s     0K     0K     0K     4K  --   - S   8% mythfrontend.r
 6001   0.07s   0.01s     0K     0K     0K     0K  --   - R   2% atop
 1637   0.01s   0.01s     0K     0K     0K     8K  --   - S   0% mysqld
 6004   0.02s   0.00s     0K     0K      -      -  NE   0 E   0% <sh>
 1912   0.01s   0.00s     0K     0K     0K     0K  --   - S   0% gvfsd
 3369   0.01s   0.00s     0K     0K     0K     0K  --   - S   0% hald-addon-sto
 6005   0.01s   0.00s     0K     0K      -      -  NE   0 E   0% <gnome-screen>
 1819   0.00s   0.00s     0K     0K     0K     0K  --   - S   0% xfwm4
 1377   0.00s   0.00s     0K   -52K     0K     0K  --   - S   0% python
 1888   0.00s   0.00s     0K     0K     0K     0K  --   - S   0% xfce4-volumed
    1   0.00s   0.00s     0K     0K    24K     0K  --   - S   0% init
 1777   0.00s   0.00s     0K     0K     0K     0K  --   - S   0% dbus-daemon
  600   0.00s   0.00s     0K     0K     0K  2440K  --   - S   0% kjournald2

Records 2 shows (BBC1, C4) - watch recording;

vmstat 5
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu----
 r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in   cs us sy id wa
 1  0  11820  14988  19176 985480    0    0     4    60   94    3  2  1 96  1
 1  0  11820  14756  19116 985852    0    0   563  1358 1712 2827 12  6 81  2
 1  0  11820  15376  19076 985164    0    0   563  1233 1691 2796 12  5 81  2
 0  0  11820  15380  18444 985788    0    0   666  1176 1721 2860 11  5 81  2
 0  0  11820  15504  18492 985924    0    0   717  1162 1705 2922 12  6 80  2
 0  0  11820  13892  18544 987456    0    0   666  1226 1698 2816 11  5 81  3
 0  0  11820  14748  18576 986812    0    0   676  1156 1721 2807 11  5 81  2
 1  1  11820  14640  18600 986756    0    0   717  1242 1752 2828 11  5 82  2

uptime
 08:38:05 up 17:36,  2 users,  load average: 0.83, 0.82, 0.78

iostat -x 5
avg-cpu:  %user   %nice %system %iowait  %steal   %idle
           5.94    0.00    7.81    2.50    0.00   83.75

Device:         rrqm/s   wrqm/s     r/s     w/s   rsec/s   wsec/s
avgrq-sz avgqu-sz   await  svctm  %util
sdb               0.00     1.20    0.00    2.00     0.00    25.60
12.80     0.01    6.00   6.00   1.20
sda               0.00   301.40    2.60   14.20  1331.20  2508.80
228.57     0.16    9.76   8.57  14.40
sdd               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00
0.00     0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
sr0               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00
0.00     0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00

atop 5

ATOP - s                  2009/11/23  08:40:05                5 seconds elapsed
PRC | sys   1.04s | user   2.27s | #proc    186 | #zombie    5 | #exit      0 |
CPU | sys     10% | user     42% | irq      15% | idle    325% | wait      9% |
cpu | sys      4% | user     15% | irq      15% | idle     57% | cpu000 w 10% |
cpu | sys      2% | user     17% | irq       0% | idle     81% | cpu002 w  0% |
cpu | sys      3% | user      4% | irq       0% | idle     93% | cpu003 w  0% |
cpu | sys      1% | user      8% | irq       0% | idle     91% | cpu001 w  0% |
CPL | avg1   0.88 | avg5    0.83 | avg15   0.79 | csw    14029 | intr    8402 |
MEM | tot    1.7G | free   14.7M | cache 961.3M | buff   20.3M | slab   58.1M |
SWP | tot    7.5G | free    7.4G |              | vmcom   1.2G | vmlim   8.3G |
PAG | scan   2304 | stall      0 |              | swin       0 | swout      0 |
DSK |         sda | busy     14% | read      13 | write     75 | avio    8 ms |
DSK |         sdb | busy      1% | read       0 | write     13 | avio    3 ms |
NET | transport   | tcpi       1 | tcpo       1 | udpi       0 | udpo       0 |
NET | network     | ipi        1 | ipo        1 | ipfrw      0 | deliv      1 |
NET | eth0     0% | pcki       1 | pcko       1 | si    0 Kbps | so    1 Kbps |

  PID  SYSCPU  USRCPU  VGROW  RGROW  RDDSK  WRDSK  ST EXC S  CPU CMD     1/1
 1830   0.63s   1.62s     0K   -12K  3072K     0K  --   - S  42% mythfrontend.r
 1226   0.15s   0.62s     0K     0K     0K  5864K  --   - S  14% mythbackend
 1372   0.16s   0.00s     0K     0K     0K     0K  --   - S   3% Xorg
 6108   0.07s   0.02s     0K     0K     0K     0K  --   - R   2% atop
 1637   0.01s   0.01s     0K     0K     0K    12K  --   - S   0% mysqld
 1871   0.01s   0.00s     0K     0K     0K     0K  --   - S   0% devkit-disks-d
  600   0.01s   0.00s     0K     0K     0K  2876K  --   - S   0% kjournald2
 3369   0.00s   0.00s     0K     0K     0K     0K  --   - S   0% hald-addon-sto
 1050   0.00s   0.00s     0K     0K     0K     0K  --   - S   0% cron
  365   0.00s   0.00s     0K     0K     0K    20K  --   - S   0% kjournald2
 1987   0.00s   0.00s     0K     0K     0K     0K  --   - S   0% kdvb-ad-0-fe-0

2009/11/22 Greg Cope <gregcope at gmail.com>:
> 2009/11/22 Sasha Sirotkin <Sasha.Sirotkin at comsysmobile.com>:
>> Do you have any idea what is the CPU load in such scenario ? R3610 is
>> not widely available yet, so I'm thinking of getting the older AR1600
>> model
>
> Where are you - there are loads available, and the R3610 is cheaper
> than the other models (in the UK at least) for some odd reasons.
>
> Load is not a great indicator of work, as it is just a running average
> of the run queue - which on a Host that appears as 4 CPUs this is not
> great) indication of busyness.
>
> Just a short test recording one DVB program;
>
> iostat 5 -x (skipp 1st few lines);
> avg-cpu:  %user   %nice %system %iowait  %steal   %idle
>           4.31    0.00    0.58    1.36    0.00   93.76
>
> Device:         rrqm/s   wrqm/s     r/s     w/s   rsec/s   wsec/s
> avgrq-sz avgqu-sz   await  svctm  %util
> sdb               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00
> 0.00     0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
> sda               0.00   140.00    0.00    6.80     0.00  1166.40
> 171.53     0.07    9.71   8.24   5.60
> sdd               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00
> 0.00     0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
> sr0               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00
> 0.00     0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
>
> uptime
>  16:33:30 up  1:31,  3 users,  load average: 0.32, 0.49, 0.56
>
> Although CPU usage is minimal (93.76% idle) the load is a around 0.56
> (however on an SMP host I would divide this by no of CPUs to get a
> clearer "load") which is equal more like "0.14" (0.56/4) which is
> still above CPU util.
>
> vmstat 5(ignore 1st line as this is since boot);
> procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu----
>  r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in   cs us sy id wa
>  0  0      0  14708  46120 1281348    0    0    15   147  141  275  3  1 94  2
>  0  0      0  13832  46132 1282160    0    0     0   525  584 1122  5  0 93  1
>  0  0      0  14808  46124 1281276    0    0     0   718  577 1069  4  1 93  2
>  0  0      0  13816  46132 1282012    0    0     0   632  585 1124  5  1 93  1
>  0  0      0  14684  46120 1280836    0    0     0   470  582 1113  4  1 94  1
>  0  0      0  15304  46104 1280240    0    0     0   513  594 1165  5  1 93  1
>  0  0      0  14312  46128 1281136    0    0     0   573  583 1119  5  1 93  1
>
> sudo atop 5
>
> ATOP - s                  2009/11/22  16:41:46                5 seconds elapsed
> PRC | sys   0.17s | user   1.08s | #proc    188 | #zombie    5 | #exit      0 |
> CPU | sys      3% | user     20% | irq       0% | idle    371% | wait      6% |
> cpu | sys      1% | user      7% | irq       0% | idle     86% | cpu000 w  6% |
> cpu | sys      0% | user     13% | irq       0% | idle     87% | cpu003 w  0% |
> cpu | sys      1% | user      0% | irq       0% | idle     98% | cpu001 w  0% |
> cpu | sys      1% | user      0% | irq       0% | idle     99% | cpu002 w  0% |
> CPL | avg1   0.80 | avg5    0.61 | avg15   0.57 | csw     5865 | intr    3075 |
> MEM | tot    1.7G | free   13.4M | cache   1.2G | buff   45.0M | slab   66.0M |
> SWP | tot    7.5G | free    7.5G |              | vmcom 968.0M | vmlim   8.3G |
> PAG | scan    896 | stall      0 |              | swin       0 | swout      0 |
> DSK |         sda | busy      6% | read       0 | write     39 | avio    7 ms |
> DSK |         sdb | busy      1% | read       0 | write      7 | avio    5 ms |
> NET | transport   | tcpi       2 | tcpo       2 | udpi       0 | udpo       0 |
> NET | network     | ipi        2 | ipo        2 | ipfrw      0 | deliv      2 |
> NET | eth0     0% | pcki       2 | pcko       2 | si    0 Kbps | so    5 Kbps |
>
>  PID  SYSCPU  USRCPU  VGROW  RGROW  RDDSK  WRDSK  ST EXC S  CPU CMD     1/1
>  1830   0.00s   0.71s     0K     0K     0K     0K  --   - S  13% mythfrontend.r
>  1226   0.11s   0.34s     0K     0K     0K  3740K  --   - S   9% mythbackend
>  3570   0.06s   0.03s   400K   400K     0K     0K  --   - R   2% atop
>  3369   0.00s   0.00s     0K     0K     0K     0K  --   - S   0% hald-addon-sto
>  1329   0.00s   0.00s     0K     0K     0K     0K  --   - S   0% hald-addon-sto
>  365   0.00s   0.00s     0K     0K     0K     4K  --   - S   0% kjournald2
>  600   0.00s   0.00s     0K     0K     0K    16K  --   - S   0% kjournald2
>
> Recording 2 streams;
>
> iostat -x 5
> avg-cpu:  %user   %nice %system %iowait  %steal   %idle
>           5.10    0.00    2.04    2.38    0.00   90.47
>
> Device:         rrqm/s   wrqm/s     r/s     w/s   rsec/s   wsec/s
> avgrq-sz avgqu-sz   await  svctm  %util
> sdb               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00
> 0.00     0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
> sda               0.00   272.20    0.00   12.00     0.00  2257.60
> 188.13     0.26   21.67   9.83  11.80
> sdd               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00
> 0.00     0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
> sr0               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00
> 0.00     0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
>
> greg at s:~$ vmstat 5
> procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu----
>  r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in   cs us sy id wa
>  2  0      0  15116  45512 1235156    0    0    14   149  143  279  3  1 94  2
>  2  0      0  15216  45516 1234964    0    0     0  1124  962 1821  5  2 91  3
>  0  0      0  14348  45504 1236080    0    0     0  1070  932 1870  6  1 91  2
>  0  0      0  15216  45480 1235120    0    0     0  1347  966 1880  6  2 90  3
>  0  0      0  14844  45480 1235432    0    0     0  1041  933 1863  6  1 91  2
>  0  0      0  13712  45512 1236484    0    0     0  1022  946 1822  5  2 91  2
> ^C
> greg at s:~$ uptime
>  16:46:52 up  1:44,  3 users,  load average: 0.90, 0.77, 0.63
>
> ATOP - s                  2009/11/22  16:45:08                5 seconds elapsed
> PRC | sys   0.35s | user   1.13s | #proc    189 | #zombie    5 | #exit      0 |
> CPU | sys      6% | user     22% | irq       1% | idle    362% | wait      9% |
> cpu | sys      4% | user     11% | irq       1% | idle     75% | cpu000 w  8% |
> cpu | sys      1% | user      9% | irq       0% | idle     89% | cpu002 w  1% |
> cpu | sys      0% | user      1% | irq       0% | idle     99% | cpu003 w  0% |
> cpu | sys      1% | user      0% | irq       0% | idle     98% | cpu001 w  0% |
> CPL | avg1   0.88 | avg5    0.69 | avg15   0.60 | csw     9148 | intr    4813 |
> MEM | tot    1.7G | free   14.3M | cache   1.2G | buff   44.6M | slab   65.0M |
> SWP | tot    7.5G | free    7.5G |              | vmcom   1.0G | vmlim   8.3G |
> PAG | scan   1248 | stall      0 |              | swin       0 | swout      0 |
> DSK |         sda | busy     11% | read       0 | write     55 | avio   10 ms |
> DSK |         sdb | busy      1% | read       0 | write      5 | avio   10 ms |
> NET | transport   | tcpi       1 | tcpo       1 | udpi       0 | udpo       0 |
> NET | network     | ipi        1 | ipo        1 | ipfrw      0 | deliv      1 |
> NET | eth0     0% | pcki       1 | pcko       1 | si    0 Kbps | so    2 Kbps |
>
>  PID  SYSCPU  USRCPU  VGROW  RGROW  RDDSK  WRDSK  ST EXC S  CPU CMD     1/1
>  1830   0.16s   0.54s     0K     0K     0K     0K  --   - S  13% mythfrontend.r
>  1226   0.11s   0.55s     0K     0K     0K  5104K  --   - S  13% mythbackend
>  3582   0.07s   0.02s     0K     0K     0K     0K  --   - R   2% atop
>  1637   0.00s   0.01s     0K     0K     0K     0K  --   - S   0% mysqld
>  1821   0.00s   0.01s     0K     0K     0K     0K  --   - S   0% xfce4-panel
>   47   0.01s   0.00s     0K     0K     0K     0K  --   - S   0% kswapd0
>  1372   0.00s   0.00s     0K     0K     0K     0K  --   - S   0% Xorg
>  1819   0.00s   0.00s     0K     0K     0K     0K  --   - S   0% xfwm4
>  1065   0.00s   0.00s     0K     0K     0K     0K  --   - S   0% ntpd
>  3369   0.00s   0.00s     0K     0K     0K     0K  --   - S   0% hald-addon-sto
>  365   0.00s   0.00s     0K     0K     0K     4K  --   - S   0% kjournald2
>  600   0.00s   0.00s     0K     0K     0K  2216K  --   - S   0% kjournald2
>
> I'll do more test later;
>
> - Record 1 stream, watch 1 recording
> - Record 1 stream, watch live TV
> - Record 2 streams, watch 1 recording
>
> But in Summary on my dual core host I see minimal CPU use most of the
> time, but I do see "Load"
>
> Greg
>


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