[mythtv-users] Slow Performance

Jason James jason_james_97 at yahoo.com
Fri Mar 21 03:39:13 UTC 2003


To test my video performance, I ran glxgears. I got a
slow 418 FPS. Turning ACPI off in the kernel improved
performance to about 520 FPS. I got it up to 1200 FPS
by switching from 24 bit to 16 bit graphics.


--- Jason James <jason_james_97 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> --- thor <mythtv at lamedomainname.com> wrote:
> > On Thursday 20 March 2003 07:46 pm, Jason James
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > >
> > > > 	./configure --enable-lcd
> > > >
> > > > 	when you built the core myth stuff, did you?
> > >
> > > No. I guess you're saying this isn't normal ;-)
> > 
> > 
> > 	It's just that until very recent CVS (yesterday)
> if
> > you built in lcd support 
> > and then weren't actually running LCDd, then
> libmyth
> > would spend all spare 
> > CPU cycles trying to open an impossible socket
> > connection.
> > 
> > 	Obviously not what's going on in your case, but
> may
> > help others following the 
> > thread.
> 
> I'm wondering if it's the video driver. X is using
> all
> of the CPU during these times. If I switch
> mythfrontend from 1280x1024 (my screen resolution)
> to
> something smaller, then the CPU hit is smaller. At
> 800x600 it only uses 50% CPU for a page down in the
> Schedule a Recording screen. Still that seems high.
> 
> Is the GeForce2 driver from NVidia a dog? Or is it
> something else? 
> 
> ./jj
> 
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