[mythtv-users] Excessive CPU usage with 27.5 x64 Fedora?

[Jim]

On 5/7/2014 2:57 PM, Another Sillyname wrote:
> I've just upgraded to 27.5 on a Mythfrontend Fedora x64 box and
> something seems to have got broken, previous version has run happily
> on this machine for about a year with 3-4 month yum updates.
>
> I noticed that when a recording or video ended the 'return' to menu
> screen was not snappy and sometimes it would only partially return
> (i.e. The last frame from the video would take up the majority of the
> screen with a 'box' where you could see the part of the menu screen
> visible, however the behaviour was inconsistent).
>
> So I've taken that machine out of production to do some analysis.....
>
> Clean Boot
>
> Start HTOP in a Terminal Session
>
> Start mythfrontend in a seperate Terminal Session
>
> Library-->  Recordings -->  Select just one recording....Play
> recording for say 10 seconds.
>
> Exit out of recording..back to recordings selection menu
>
> Select HTOP Terminal Session to see what's happening
>
> mythfrontend has saturated all 4 cores on a quad core box at 100% and
> just sits there eat CPU cycles even though mythfrontend isn't doing
> anything 'active'.
>
> Screengrab here
>
> http://postimg.org/image/pl3eywb2j/
>
> Ideas/Thoughts/Suggestions?
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Looks like you have 19 mythfrontends running??

-- 
Jim