[mythtv-users] Abnormally high load on backend?

[Michael T. Dean]

On 03/15/2006 11:32 PM, Marco Nelissen wrote:

>>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.
>  
>

See also http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/133227#133227

Mike