[mythtv-users] Higer load in .20

[Derek Meek]

list at onnow.net wrote:

>Quoting Derek Meek <thekazan at gmail.com>:
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>>barchanski at poczta.fm wrote:
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>>>Cory Papenfuss napisa?(a):
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>>>>On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, list at onnow.net wrote:
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>>>>>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
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>>>>is?
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>>>>>top - 08:22:37 up 1 day, 15:23,  3 users,  load average: 2.11, 1.82,
>>>>>
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>>>>1.70
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>>>>>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
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>>>>mythfrontend
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>>>>> 2466 root      16   0  126m 101m 2452 S  3.0 23.0  12:12.81 Xorg
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>>>>	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
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>>>>ago.  Is this just the OpenGL gui that sucks so much cpu?  It seems a bit
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>>>>excessive to require 2GHz machine for SDTV...
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>>>>-Cory
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>>>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%)
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>>>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).
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>>>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...
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>>>Andrzej
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>>I believe the new OpenGL drawing subsystem is off by default
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>>Derek "Kazan" Meek
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http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Release_Notes_-_0.20
* Menus are now drawn by MythUI
<http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/MythUI> using OpenGL
<http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/OpenGL>. This option can be
enabled/disabled in the Appearance settings.

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Derek "Kazan" Meek
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