[mythtv] scheduler: "The Nanny" - tipping point into madness

[Robert Kulagowski]

More data:
(Bruce's patch)
With "The Nanny", clean startup.
2004-04-12 23:32:52 Scheduled 280 items in 555.998 seconds.
Mem:    514036k total,   508772k used,     5264k free,      448k buffers
Swap:   522072k total,   148916k used,   373156k free,     5644k cached

   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
  1917 mythtv    25   0  506m 447m  18m S  0.0 89.2   0:00.26 mythbackend

Removing "The Nanny" during that same iteration.
2004-04-12 23:47:16 Scheduled 238 items in 2.77334 seconds.
   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
  1917 mythtv    25   0  508m 440m  21m S  0.0 87.8   0:00.27 mythbackend

Clean startup, without "The Nanny":
2004-04-12 23:48:29 Scheduled 236 items in 1.73907 seconds.
   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
  4209 mythtv    25   0 13412  13m 8664 S  0.0  2.6   0:00.29 mythbackend

That's a pretty big difference, memory wise.