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<p style="margin: 0 0 1em 0; color: black; font-family: sans-serif;">On 6 November 2017 6:08:42 pm Ian Evans <dheianevans@gmail.com> wrote:</p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 1em 0; color: black; font-family: sans-serif;">> On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 12:17 PM, David Brieck Jr. <dbrieck@gmail.com> wrote:<br>
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>> On Nov 3, 2017 1:09 AM, "Ian Evans" <dheianevans@gmail.com> wrote:<br>
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>> Okay, latest mythtv 29 on Xubuntu 16.04. Upgraded a few weeks ago via a<br>
>> clean install from .27 on Mythbuntu 12.04.<br>
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>> Same hardware I've been running MythTV on since 2011. 2 Gig of RAM. 2<br>
>> recording drives. 1 OS/DB drive.<br>
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>> Since installing 29 I get frequent load spikes that make the system<br>
>> unusable. As I type I have three recording going and my system is going<br>
>> over 20 in top's load. Under .27 it wouldn't break a sweat. It's a two core<br>
>> system and I only allow one job at a time. Only job running right now is a<br>
>> commflag on one of the recordings.<br>
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>> Even when it's not spiking this high, entering and exiting a recording can<br>
>> take 30+ seconds. I've included a snap of top. But where should I be<br>
>> looking? Or what info should I post here? Again I've been running since<br>
>> April 2011 and have never seen this load issue.<br>
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>> Thanks!<br>
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>> It's the front end that's causing the load. I would check to make sure<br>
>> you're using the correct video drivers and rendering engine. Could be the<br>
>> osd as well.<br>
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> Using Standard decoding and VDPAU rendering. The driver is 304.135. When I<br>
> did that top, no video was playing at the time. Running 64 bit Xubuntu.<br>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 1em 0; color: black;">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.
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<p style="margin: 0 0 1em 0; color: black;">Try shift + m while in top to sort by % memory used and post that.
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<p style="margin: 0 0 1em 0; color: black;">Do you accidentally have multiple FE processes running?
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