[mythtv-users] Higer load in .20

[Richard Conway]

Matthew Schumacher wrote:
> 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'm running on a Duron 800 with no problems since the upgrade - I would 
say all in all I have less problems now than I had with 0.19-fixes.