[mythtv-users] Load goes through the roof at times since installing 29

Mark Perkins perkins1724 at hotmail.com
Mon Nov 6 23:55:21 UTC 2017


On 7 November 2017 9:58:43 am Ian Evans <dheianevans at gmail.com> wrote:

>> As was already mentioned that swapping should be checked. I don't know
>> what your top showed from 0.27 times but 20% CPU load for three recordings
>> plus a commflag job on 2011 hardware sounded fine to me. I couldn't see the
>> problem there. But swapping - particularly 500+ MiB - that sounds awful and
>> sounds like the symptoms you are seeing.
>>
>> Try shift + m while in top to sort by % memory used and post that.
>>
>> Do you accidentally have multiple FE processes running?
>>
>>
> Of course when I NEED a spike I don't get one. Here's a top with one
> recording and commflag. Load is over 1 though. Will try again if I see a 20+
>
>

I suspect that the high load will return as soon as your system starts swapping lots of mem again. But I think the issue (cause) is probably the mem swapping.

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