[mythtv-users] commercial flagging questions

[Chris Pinkham]

* On Wed Mar 26, 2008 at 07:20:36PM -0700, bungle wrote:
> I pumped the priority to high and commflag took about 7-8 minutes for a one
> hour show, so that's pretty good.  I guess it was a lot more "nice" before
> than I thought.  I thought 25% was 1/2 of one core, but I guess it's 1/4
> since now it ran at close to 100% on top.  One core full-bore must be 100%
> on Linux (200 total), whereas on Windows each is 50% (100 total).

The 'Low' CPU setting also sleeps a little every frame so it's more than
just niced.  The 'Medium' setting is just niced and 'High' is
full-bore (no sleep and no nice).  The ~realtime flagging alters its
speed as it runs in order to stay close behind real time while not
catching up too close.

--
Chris