[mythtv-users] Crippling load spike on FE/BE - cause unknown?

Anthony Messina amessina at messinet.com
Mon Dec 8 19:07:17 UTC 2008


On Monday 08 December 2008 12:22:56 Daniel Kristjansson wrote:
> There is sometimes a bad interaction with the Composite extension and
> nvidia drivers for the 6xxx, 7xxx & 8xxx cards which results in the
> Xorg CPU usage going to 100% while video is playing. If your Xorg
> CPU usage jumps to 100% when this occurs, try disabling the composite
> extension, or switching to legacy nvidia drivers which don't exhibit
> this behaviour.

I'll try that.  Thank you.  Do you think this might also be an issue, ven when 
I'm not watching anything?  As the load spikes usually do not occur while 
watching anything.

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