[mythtv] regular full CPU load by mysqld if mythbackend is running

Tino Keitel tino.keitel at gmx.de
Wed Oct 19 11:16:29 UTC 2005


On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 11:56:19 +0100, Stuart Auchterlonie wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 11:36:00AM +0200, Tino Keitel wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> > 
> > since I use a SVN version with the EIT crawler, the mysqld uses 100%
> > CPU from time to time, for ca. 30 seconds. My feeling is also that the
> > system becomes somewhat slow during this time, which is annoying.
> > 
> > This is an Athlon XP 2500+ and I think that an application like
> > mythbackend should not cause such a load for a longer period under
> > normal conditions. What could be the reason for this? I wonder this
> > indicates that my mythconverg DB is somewhat broken, but everything
> > else in MythTV is working.
> > 
> 
> Which specific svn version are you using? 7385 contain changes
> to make sure that only 20 events are put into the database each
> run through. 7386 reduced the priority of the scanner and sched.
> This greatly reduced the load on the DB from what it was previously.
> 
> I'll look at what else I can do to reduce the DB load some more.

Thank.

Currently, I'm using 7474.

Regards,
Tino


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