[mythtv-users] Mythfrontend idle cpu consumption help

[Jim Stichnoth]

On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
> I picked up from mythbuntu forums that setting TZ helps here. The poster stated:
>
> "I think I found the solution to this. The problem was that the TZ
> environment variable was not set and caused mythfrontend.real to spin
> on trying to read /etc/localtime.
>
> Once I set TZ, it was fine.
>
> i.e.
>
> export TZ=Canada/Toronto"
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1293019
>
> TZ isn't set on any of my boxes, but I am not running 0.22 to test.

The TZ and /etc/localtime issue was observed on this thread a while
ago (http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/406613#406613).
 Normally, accessing a file 70 times per second wouldn't cause a
problem, unless the file happens to be on NFS and you are running the
2.6.27 kernel.  In any case, this has been pretty much put to rest by
some recent checkins by danielk.

Jim