<br>I upgraded to the backports packages last night and we are seeing Xorg go nuts, aka use most of the available CPU. It's causing a lot of studdering and the job queue is taking a lot longer than usual. At this point I wish i hadn't upgraded...<br>
<br> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND<br> 5014 root 25 0 135m 111m 22m R 53.1 11.1 182:46.67 Xorg<br> 6671 cp 15 0 256m 108m 44m S 25.9 10.7 77:13.18 <a href="http://mythfrontend.re">mythfrontend.re</a><br>
9218 cp 25 9 272m 127m 26m R 13.0 12.7 20:52.89 firefox-bin<br> 9789 mythtv 33 17 107m 49m 13m R 6.6 4.9 33:19.19 mythtranscode<br> 5580 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.7 0.0 0:06.50 nfsd<br>
5578 root 15 0 0 0 0 R 0.3 0.0 0:05.12 nfsd<br>12279 cp 15 0 2364 1184 876 R 0.3 0.1 0:00.05 top<br><br>While the mythfrontend process seems to be using a little less CPU than before the upgrade, something about it caused Xorg to really start sucking the CPU. While the top above was running it was 0% idle. Even when I don't have firefox or a transcode going the CPU is almost always near 100% while playing something through the frontend. Without the "nice -n 9 firefox" the process of firefox would be a lot higher and the TV viewing would be torture. <br>
<br>Before the upgrade running mythfrontend on this particular machine it used about 30-40% CPU on average. If a transcode was runing the CPU would be near 100%, but I wouldn't be having these stuttering problems. <br>
<br>I am seeing this on two other frontends just as bad and it doesn't seem to be as bad on my fathers old 1Ghz laptop, it runs at about 60% CPU. One difference between the old laptop and the other machines is the old laptop has an old ATI video card and all the others have nvidia cards, a 6200, 5200 and an old MX440. The laptop test was just a quick test and perhaps it will be just as bad if anything else is running.<br>
<br><br>Anyone else seeing this and more importantly what should I do to fix this?<br><br><br>Thanks,<br>Chuck<br><span class="HcCDpe"></span><br><br>PS. A diif of dpkg -l before and after the upgrade shows no packages related to Xorg, kernel or nvidia.<br>
<br>$ diff etc/dpkg-l ../daily/13/etc/dpkg-l <br>605d604<br>< ii libcarp-clan-perl 5.9-1 Perl enhancement to Carp error logging facil<br>1019,1021d1017<br>< ii libmyth-0.21-0 0.21.0-0ubuntu2~gutsy1 Common library code for MythTV and add-on mo<br>
< ii libmyth-perl 0.21.0-0ubuntu2~gutsy1 A PERL library to access some MythTV feature<br>< ii libmyth-python 0.21.0-0ubuntu2~gutsy1 A python library to access some MythTV featu<br>
1041d1036<br>< ii libnet-upnp-perl 1.2.1-0ubuntu2~gutsy1 Perl extensions for UPnP<br>1483,1485c1478,1480<br>< ii mytharchive 0.21.0-0ubuntu2~gutsy1 create and burn DVD's from MythTV - binary f<br>
< ii mytharchive-data 0.21.0-0ubuntu2~gutsy1 create and burn DVD's from MythTV - data fil<br>< ii mythbrowser 0.21.0-0ubuntu2~gutsy1 A small web browser module for MythTV<br>
---<br>> ii mytharchive 0.20.2-0ubuntu2 create and burn DVD's from MythTV - binary f<br>> ii mytharchive-data 0.20.2-0ubuntu2 create and burn DVD's from MythTV - data fil<br>
> ii mythbrowser 0.20.2-0ubuntu2 A small web browser module for MythTV<br>1487,1493c1482,1489<br>< ii mythcontrols 0.21.0-0ubuntu2~gutsy1 External controls for MythTV<br>
< ii mythflix 0.21.0-0ubuntu2~gutsy1 netflix module for MythTV<br>< ii mythgallery 0.21.0-0ubuntu2~gutsy1 Image gallery/slideshow add-on module for My<br>
< ii mythmusic 0.21.0-0ubuntu2~gutsy1 Music add-on module for MythTV<br>< ii mythnews 0.21.0-0ubuntu2~gutsy1 An RSS feed news reader module for MythTV<br>
< ii mythtv-backend 0.21.0-0ubuntu2~gutsy1 A personal video recorder application (serve<br>< ii mythtv-common 0.21.0-0ubuntu2~gutsy1 A personal video recorder application (commo<br>
---<br>> ii mythcontrols 0.20.2-0ubuntu2 External controls for MythTV<br>> ii mythdvd 0.20.2-0ubuntu2 DVD add-on module for MythTV<br>
> ii mythflix 0.20.2-0ubuntu2 netflix module for MythTV<br>> ii mythgallery 0.20.2-0ubuntu2 Image gallery/slideshow add-on module for My<br>
> ii mythmusic 0.20.2-0ubuntu2 Music add-on module for MythTV<br>> ii mythnews 0.20.2-0ubuntu2 An RSS feed news reader module for MythTV<br>
> ii mythtv-backend 0.20.2-0ubuntu10.1 A personal video recorder application (serve<br>> ii mythtv-common 0.20.2-0ubuntu10.1 A personal video recorder application (commo<br>
1495,1501c1491,1497<br>< ii mythtv-doc 0.21.0-0ubuntu2~gutsy1 A personal video recorder application (docum<br>< ii mythtv-frontend 0.21.0-0ubuntu2~gutsy1 A personal video recorder application (clien<br>
< ii mythtv-themes 0.21.0-0ubuntu1~gutsy1 Additional themes metapackage for MythTV<br>< ii mythtv-transcode-utils 0.21.0-0ubuntu2~gutsy1 Utilities used for transcoding MythTV tasks<br>
< ii mythvideo 0.21.0-0ubuntu2~gutsy1 A generic video player frontend module for M<br>< ii mythweather 0.21.0-0ubuntu2~gutsy1 Weather add-on module for MythTV<br>
< ii mythweb 0.21.0-0ubuntu2~gutsy1 Web interface add-on module for MythTV<br>---<br>> ii mythtv-doc 0.20.2-0ubuntu10.1 A personal video recorder application (docum<br>
> ii mythtv-frontend 0.20.2-0ubuntu10.1 A personal video recorder application (clien<br>> ii mythtv-themes 0.20-0.1ubuntu1 Additional themes for MythTV<br>
> ii mythtv-transcode-utils 0.20.2-0ubuntu10.1 Utilities used for transcoding MythTV tasks<br>> ii mythvideo 0.20.2-0ubuntu2 A generic video player frontend module for M<br>
> ii mythweather 0.20.2-0ubuntu2 Weather add-on module for MythTV<br>> ii mythweb 0.20.2-0ubuntu2 Web interface add-on module for MythTV<br>
1578d1573<br>< ii perlmagick 7:6.2.4.5.dfsg1-2ubuntu1 A perl interface to the libMagick graphics r<br>1734,1739c1729,1734<br>< ii python2.4 2.4.4-6ubuntu4.1 An interactive high-level object-oriented la<br>
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