[mythtv-users] odd CPU usage
Isaac Richards
ijr at po.cwru.edu
Fri May 2 13:58:26 EDT 2003
On Friday 02 May 2003 12:48 pm, Aran Cox wrote:
> I've seen this too... and it bugs me. My system is fast enough to
> record and playback another recording. However, when watching LiveTV I
> often get very jerky motion and top shows very little idle CPU time.
> However, recording and playing back another show uses 35% backend, 5-10%
> frontend. Sometimes I see it behave like this, other times LiveTV
> works just fine. I'm pretty aware of other background processes, and
> I'm sure nothing else is causing this.
>
> Question: Does a single backend/frontend combo system always read the
> data over the TCP socket? Or does the frontend get the files straight
> from the filesystem when possible?
Live-tv currently always goes through a TCP socket. I've never bothered
optimizing that, yet, though I plan to sometime. Playback of files will get
the data from the filesystem when possible, though.
Isaac
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