[mythtv-users] CPU Usage 100% on XP2100 capturing MPEG4 at 6000

Joseph A. Caputo jcaputo1 at comcast.net
Wed Feb 4 11:56:04 EST 2004


On Wednesday 04 February 2004 11:04, Chris Pinkham wrote:
> > On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Bruce wrote:
> > > Is this normal? I thought CPU usage for recording would be lower?
> >
> > It could be that it's recently finished recording something and is
> > doing the commercial flagging - that will soak up any spare CPU. 
> > However, my
>
> Actually it doesn't.  The commercial flagging runs as a nice-d
> process and it sleeps a little for every frame it processes.  These
> are done to try to make sure that commercial flagging doesn't
> interrupt any other processes running on the system.

Right, but I think the point was that this still shows up in top as 100% 
usage, which can be misleading if you don't look at some of the other 
fields (like nice level).

-JAC



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