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

George Galt george.galt at gmail.com
Mon Dec 8 20:01:16 UTC 2008


On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Anthony Messina <amessina at messinet.com> wrote:
> 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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If your symptoms are similar to this post:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/347546, the
solution at the end of the post is to include
Option "UseEvents" "True"
in the "Device" section of xorg.conf.  I noticed your file did not
have that line.

Hope this helps.

George


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