[mythtv-users] Scrolling in MythMusic playlist selection screen

thor mythtv at lamedomainname.com
Mon Nov 1 18:55:50 UTC 2004


On Monday 01 November 2004 02:32 am, Craig Box wrote:
> With regard to Henk's post, changing to vesa makes no difference.  All the
> tests I refer to in this post are done in vesa.  However, X does seem to be
> the problem, as it hits 85-90% CPU time as soon as you start jumping around
> the "add music to playlist" list with the number keys
>

 Well, this is a bit of a mystery. Going to need distro and Qt versions to see 
if others with the same problem can figure out commonalities.


> > And you're absolutely sure the 15 second figure does not change at
> > all when you chnage your list as shuffled option?
>
> List as shuffled on: 22 seconds
> List as shuffled off: 22 seconds.
>
> This is after waiting for the "Please wait" to load the music database, and
> with a song playing.  That "please wait" takes about 20 seconds on my
> 14,000 songs, as well.  Should it take so long?

 No.

> Nothing seems to use the 
> CPU, tcpdump turns up no network traffic until the music starts playing.  I
> can give you an strace log if you need.
>
> > Is this 0.15, 0.16, CVS, etc?
>
> 0.16
>

 OK. Anyone else having this problem: did it start with 0.16?

> > Is your HD light flashing? What does "free" say?
>
> It's not really flashing at all.
>
> free output:
>
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:        256744     251440       5304          0       7100      78704
> -/+ buffers/cache:     165636      91108
> Swap:       522104         16     522088
>

 Not a memory issue apparently.

- thor



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