[mythtv] Increased cpu usage frontend with .15 and up

[James Meyer]

On Sunday 30 May 2004 23:32, Isaac Richards wrote:
> On Sunday 30 May 2004 11:50 pm, James  Meyer wrote:
> > While watching pre-recorded television   mythfrontend cpu usage seems to
> > jump significantly about 20-30 minutes into the viewing. Normal usage for
> > me is 20% for  one frontend thread and the rest of the mythfrontend threads
> > consume less then 2%. Twenty minutes into the recording two  frontend
> > threads jump to 45% usage each,  which will cause  prebuffering pauses.
> > Sometimes just moving back to the menu will fix it, other times I need to
> > restart the frontend. I do not believe this is the "preview live
> > recordings" bug as it happens with or without that option turned off. Also
> > this problem did not occur under .14 or cvs about a week before .15's
> > release.
> 
> Only thing weird in this bt is that it seems to be loading the preview image 
> from disk, and it shouldn't be doing that.  I've just added code to CVS (the 
> release-0-15-1 branch, will be merged in to HEAD after I do a release) to try 
> to keep that from happening.  
> 
> If that doesn't fix it, you'll need to do some more debugging.  One thing that 
> would be of help would be to note which threads are using excessive CPU 
> before breaking in gdb, so I can match up what thread's doing the extra work.
> 
> Isaac
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I checked out mythtv from the release-0-15-1 branch, so far it appears to be good. 
 Four hours of pre-recorded shows and not a single hiccup during playback.
 Just in case I will continue to run mythfrontend under  gdb, but for now it looks to be fixed.
-james