[mythtv-users] high cpu usage when recording

[Marco Nelissen]

On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 2:05 AM, Stephen P. Villano <
stephen.p.villano at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On 12/7/14 4:28 AM, Paul Harrison wrote:
> > On 07/12/14 05:05, Marco Nelissen wrote:
> >> On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 8:02 PM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com
> >> <mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >>
> >>     Hoi Marco,
> >>
> >>     Sunday, December 7, 2014, 4:43:07 AM, you wrote:
> >>
> >>     > I have v0.25.3-49-gb5adf03, which based on a search for that
> >>     string appears to be from August 2013.
> >>     >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>     > On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 6:18 PM, George Nassas <gnassas at mac.com
> >>     <mailto:gnassas at mac.com>> wrote:
> >>
> >>     >> On Dec 6, 2014, at 12:19 PM, Marco Nelissen
> >>     <marco.nelissen at gmail.com <mailto:marco.nelissen at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >>      >>
> >>      >> My combined front/backend uses about 40% when recording 2
> >>     shows, and 130% when recording 5 shows, which seems awfully high
> >>     for what's basically just writing data to disk.
> >>      >> Running strace on some of the threads, they seem to be very
> >>     busy calling gettimeofday() and clock_gettime(). In fact that
> >>     seems to be *all* they're doing, since I'm not seeing anything
> >>     related to writing the recordings in the trace.
> >>      >> Anyone have any idea what might be causing this?
> >>     >
> >>     >
> >>
> >>     > What version are you using? Perhaps a year ago there was a change
> >>     > that removed/reduced the frequent time calls. I don't have a
> >>     > reference but Daniel K made the commit.
> >>     >
> >>     >  - George
> >>     >
> >>
> >>     ? :(
> >>     don't toppost
> >>     And what do you want to state!
> >>     Upgrade to normal/recent versions!
> >>
> >>
> >> The version I'm using is only just over a year old, and is the most
> >> recent version mythbuntu offers me. Why would I go through the hassle
> >> of upgrading my entire system? I do find it somewhat amusing that you
> >> apparently recommend upgrading my entire system, while at the same
> >> time complaining about top-posting, which isn't an issue for any
> >> decent/recent mail client.
> >>
> >
> > 0.25 was released in April 2012. There have been a few point releases
> > since but they only contain a few fixes that devs though where worth
> > backporting.
> >
> > The point is the problem you are reporting is fixed in newer versions
> > so you either upgrade and get all the new fixes and new features or
> > put up with your old buggy version.
> >
> > Paul H.
> > _______________________________________________
> That is strange all around. The most recent version (well, LTS) offers
> 0.27. I am using 14.04. Previously, I was on 12.04 and 0.27 was
> available there as well.
> So, either the Mythbuntu distro version is extremely old or you've not
> selected the newer versions of MythTV.
>

I'm on 12.04 LTS, but the 0.25 version of mythtv is the latest it seems to
want to offer me. How would I go about selecting a newer version of mythtv?
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