[mythtv-users] Slow menus - X claims 99% CPU - (See FAQ)

[Daniel Kristjansson]

On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 16:04 +1000, Iain Waugh wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've got an odd one here - I've got OpenGL menus working beautifully  
> (fading in and out smoothly), but the standard ones (editing program  
> schedules, selecting which recording to view, etc.) take about 1-2  
> seconds to navigate each one and the 'X' process claims 99% CPU.
> 
> It's not the theme - they all do it.
> 
> I don't think it's the window manager - twm, evilwm and fluxbox do it.
> 
> I've got nVidia compiled in and the binary drivers loaded and running  
> (glxgears > 2000fps).  Gentoo linux, mythtv 0.20_p11281, xorg 7.0.
> 
> I've had this problem with mythtv 0.19, too - gave up after 2 weeks.   
> I've got 0.16 running on an old system just fine.
> 
> Any ideas? Any pointers to help further debugging?

Look at the FAQ in the MythTV wiki & search the MythTV mailing lists.
Is it possible that you may have compiled Xorg with optimization
flags other than "-O2" ? If portage doesn't protect against this,
this symptom is a known problem with several versions of Xorg when
you compile with "-Os".

-- Daniel