[mythtv-users] Higer load in .20

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quoting Cory Papenfuss <papenfuss at me.vt.edu>:

> On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, list at onnow.net wrote:
>
>> I think there may be a bit more system required for .20
>> RAM especially I think.
>> This system is a an AMD 3200 with 512 running FC5 and .20 via RPMS.
>> On this top, there is nothing running other than mythfrontend.
>> No encoders are recording.  Live TV may be on but that is it.
>> Check this TOP out.  Any better ways to diagnose what the load/mem use is?
>>
>> top - 08:22:37 up 1 day, 15:23,  3 users,  load average: 2.11, 1.82, 1.70
>> Tasks: 134 total,   1 running, 132 sleeping,   0 stopped,   1 zombie
>> Cpu(s): 50.7% us,  2.3% sy,  0.0% ni, 37.1% id,  9.9% wa,  0.0% hi,
>> 0.0% si,  0Mem:    450424k total,   445076k used,     5348k free,
>> 1364k buffers
>> Swap:  1052216k total,   272108k used,   780108k free,    83464k cached
>>
>>    PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
>> 21181 mythtv    15   0  234m  98m  23m S 49.5 22.4 282:16.81 mythfrontend
>>   2466 root      16   0  126m 101m 2452 S  3.0 23.0  12:12.81 Xorg
>
> 	This is a bit disturbing.  I have been able to run mythtv on no
> more than a PIII-733 or 866 since I started playing with it almost 3 years
> ago.  Is this just the OpenGL gui that sucks so much cpu?  It seems a bit
> excessive to require 2GHz machine for SDTV...
>
> -Cory
>
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> * Cory Papenfuss, Ph.D., PPSEL-IA                                       *
> * Electrical Engineering                                                *
> * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University                   *
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I agree.  Though I am not sure uf it is openGL related.
The load was caused when the frontend ( combined backend ) was on and  
watching live TV.  When the frontend is on and not watching tv, the  
load is nil.

Some questions....
I have read about the fading menu's etc...
I have not seen that effect, and the gui reacts the same as it did in 19.
How do I check if I am using openGL and such?  Is there a setting in  
the frontend or how does that work?
I am running a built in Nvidia 6100 ( or 6150 ) with the 8774 drivers.

Mark