[mythtv-users] Abnormally high load on backend?

Marco Nelissen marcone at xs4all.nl
Thu Mar 16 04:32:23 UTC 2006


>Hello.
>
>My backend is an Athlon XP2100 with 1GB of RAM, 3 Nova-T DVB-T tuners
>running 0.19 with the DVB radio patch.  As I write this, just a single
>show is being recorded and no frontends are running.
>
>Load average as reported by mythweb seems pretty high to me, (and no,
>I haven't been hammering mythweb for the last 15 minutes).
>
>1   Minute: 2.83
>5   Minutes: 3.34
>15 Minutes: 3.11
>
>Guide data comes from the radio times grabber with the exception of
>the radio channels which get their data over the air.
>
>I'm sure other people run with similar configurations.  Do you
>experience such high server load or have I got something poorly
>configured?

What's the actual cpu usage? The load average is the number of active
processes, but on linux this also includes certain processes that are
sleeping. Could be perfectly normal for what the box is doing.

Marco


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