[mythtv-users] Myth menu navigation slow after using XMame in MythGame

[Andrew Dodd]

Quoting Kristo Kriechbaum <klk+myth at robotics.caltech.edu>:

> On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 03:24:04PM -0500, Isaac Richards wrote:
> > On Friday 13 February 2004 02:57 pm, Andrew Dodd wrote:
> > > Quoting David Greene <greened at obbligato.org>:
> > > > riskpeep at netscape.net wrote:
> > > > > I'm using the 0.14 release and xmame 0.78.1 in MythGame.
> > > > >
> > > > > I've been able to get everything working correctly but I'm having a
> > > > > problem with Myth AFTER I leave xmame and return to MythTV.  Every
> time
> > > > > I start a game, after the game exits, the menu navigation in MythTV
> > > > > is horrendously slow.  Has anyone else experienced this problem?
> > > >
> > > > Not sure if it's the same problem, but I've found the myth menu
> > > > system to be horrendously slow _all_the_time_.  It takes on
> > > > the order of a second or two to move around the main menu
> > > > items, change channels, bring up the guide, etc.  I just
> > > > assumed that's the way it is.  Am I in fact experiencing
> > > > unusual behavior?
> > >
> > > Are you running a local or remote frontend by any chance?
> > >
> > > When I run a remote frontend on my laptop, some menu navigation (not
> all)
> > > is ALWAYS slow.  For example, it takes 1-2 seconds to move onto/off of
> the
> > > "Watch Recordings" menu item in the TV menu.
> > 
> > I can't see how local/remote would have anything to do with menu
> > navigation -- it's not touching the backend for anything there.
> 
> Are you running mythfrontend on your laptop, or are you sshing into
> some other machine, and running mythfrontend (over the network) from
> there?
> 
> If you are not running it on the local machine, I would expect it to
> always be slow like that.
I'm running it on the laptop itself.  The only thing that is remote is the backend.

The menu pauses for 1-2 seconds before highlighting the "Watch Recordings" or
"Delete recordings" entries.  (Just by moving over them, not selecting them and
going to the watch recordings or delete recordings screen.)

I've confirmed via increasing the verbosity level and adding some extra
debugging VERBOSE() entries that WriteStringList/ReadStringList protocol
activity is not associated with the menu items.

I don't know about DB activity yet.