[mythtv-users] System hangs occasionally -- more memory didn't solve the problem

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi John,

Sunday, November 23, 2014, 11:52:15 PM, you wrote:

> On 11/23/2014 4:00 PM, Dick Steffens wrote:
>> On 11/23/2014 08:13 AM, John Finlay wrote:
>>
>>> I had a problem similar to yours with my mythbuntu FEs using the 
>>> mythbuntu theme. When the FE was in standby and the BE started a 
>>> recording the CPU usage would increase by quite a bit. After a number 
>>> of recordings it seemed that the FE CPU usage would 'stick' at over 
>>> 100% and the FE would hang. Once I disabled standby mode I had no 
>>> further problems. It seems that the mythbuntu theme uses alphapulse 
>>> animation which causes excessive CPU usage on some systems. See:
>>>
>>> https://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/12124
>>>
>>> for more details if you are using the mythbuntu theme.
>>
>> All I got from that link was a blank page.

> Looks like the server is unreachable at the moment.

>>
>> If the problem could be related to the frontend running a long time 
>> without doing anything, I'll try shutting down the front end when not 
>> watching the TV and see if that changes anything. I generally just 
>> exit back to the main menu of the front end when finished watching for 
>> the evening.
>>
> For me it happened because the FE went into standby mode when using the
> mythbuntu theme. To test it I set the standby mode to kick in after a 
> minute and then started a recording on the BE after the FE was in 
> standby mode; top showed the FE CPU usage increasing from 2% to 20%.

> John
> _______________________________________________

Are you using opengl for your frontend? I've vague idea that switching
to qt might solve it.


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