[mythtv-users] 0.25-fixes Watch Recordings doesn't load except for first time after launching on some ION machines

[Steven Adeff]

On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 4:21 PM, Jim Stichnoth <stichnot at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Steven Adeff <adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:
>> of the 4 ION frontends I have, only two will fully load and release
>> from the progress bar every time, the other two will sit with the
>> progress bar going and I have to restart mythfrontend for it to fully
>> load after the first time going into Watch Recordings.
>>
>> anyone else notice this?
>
> Recently in Master, there was a several-day performance regression
> that resulted in this behavior all the time on all of my ION
> frontends.  While the progress bar was animating, nothing else
> happened yet the CPU was at 100%.  My theme's base.xml has a section
> like this:
>
>        <imagetype name="animation">
>            <area>415,340,33,33</area>
>            <filepattern low="0"
> high="11">images/widgets/busy/busy_%1.png</filepattern>
>            <delay>100</delay>
>        </imagetype>
>
> Changing the "delay" element from 100 (milliseconds) to something
> larger like 300 or 1000 fixed the problem.  Or more accurately, worked
> around the problem.
>
> This performance regression never hit the -fixes branch, but whatever
> race condition was being hit is probably still lurking in 0.25-fixes
> and Master, and may be affecting you.

interesting, I'll give it a try. thanks!


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