[mythtv-users] Higer load in .20

[Matthew Schumacher]

Cory Papenfuss wrote:
> 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 run myth on a P3-733 and a hardware capture card and it works fine
after the upgrade to 0.20.

schu