[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 4:30 PM, Steven Adeff <adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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!

So far this has fixed it! thanks!



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