[mythtv-users] Mythfrontend High CPU Usage

MacNean C. Tyrrell dardack at nycap.rr.com
Wed Oct 20 03:34:02 UTC 2004


Dana Hata wrote:

>Mythtv ver.: 0.16
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>OK, I've discovered my stuttering (In Live TV and Watch Recordings) is
>caused by very high CPU usage- it's essentially at 100%, and I've got a
>1.8 Ghz P4.  xvinfo seems to indicate XVideo is functioning normally.
>DMA is enabled on all hard drives.  I've searched the mailing list but
>haven't found anything definitive to address my specific problem.  What
>could be causing such high CPU usage?  Is there anything I can do to get
>CPU usage down?
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>Dana
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I don't know if they fixed it, but i had to turn off show a preview of 
the show.  I just do a thumbnail.  Apparently it was still running the 
preview when exiting. 

Have you run top to see which program is using all of that cpu usage, 
back end frontend something else?

Do you have a pvrx50 or software encoder?




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