[mythtv-users] Higer load in .20

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Quoting barchanski at poczta.fm:

> Cory Papenfuss napisa?(a):
>> 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
>>
>
>
> I have also noticed that playing LiveTV on .20 requires approx. 2   
> time more CPU than on 0.19 (before - 20% of my Geode NX 1750, now 40%)
>
> Memory use also seem to have increased, now swap is at 120 MB, what   
> I never experienced before (on a 512 MB machine without KDE running   
> not so much memory is required).
>
> BTW, mythtv says the painter of menus is QT, and so it looks. It   
> would be therefore quite strange if increased CPU use was because of  
>  OpenGL, if it is actually not used...
>
> Andrzej
>
>
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I am seeing the same thing.  Twice the load exactly.  I am wondering  
if it is simply from memmory overload.  I may need more than 512 at  
this point.  I am seeing some swapping too.