[mythtv-users] Is the GUI slow for everyone or just for me?

[mark]

On Wednesday 26 May 2004 08:16 pm, Maarten wrote:

> I don't know if I can help...  can you benchmark and compare it to
> something ? By doing a kernelcompile maybe ?

I could do that perhaps.  A little busy right now.  Spring and all.

  Does bonnie++ uncover any
> obvious weak spots ? 

don't have any benchmarking stuff downloaded.  Recommendations?

 Have you overclocked it ?

Nope, pure stock.

  What does acpi report back
> as system / CPU temperatures ?

runs about 47C under full load.  BIG solid copper heatsink and 80mm slow fan 
(quiet).

>
> You may also want to verify in your BIOS that CPU internal caches are ON.

All caches are on.

> And of course, the obvious -but you checked that I hope- hdparm DMA mode.

hdparm showed about 47Mb/sec.  Decent.

>
> For more technically inclined people, it may be insightful to run iostat or
> other tools from the sysstat suite to see where exactly the bottleneck is.

Not familiar with that tool.
>
> Failing all that, if you remind me in a couple weeks (too busy now) we can
> directly compare my system to yours. Mine is an athlon 2600+, VIA KT600,
> 256MB, kernel 2.4 running Myth 0.14, so it is more or less comparable to
> yours (except RAM). It has no slowness and encodes straight to mpeg4 with
> many CPU cycles to spare (resolution 480x480 @ bitrate 3000).

I was using slightly higher encode settings.  544x480, 4000bitrate.  Real nice 
clean digital satellite signal.

> The menus feel 'reasonably' snappy, both on remote- and local frontends.
> (2-4 second wait to open "Watch Recorded Shows" with over 100 shows listed)
>
> Maarten