[mythtv-users] Mythfrontend idle cpu consumption help

[Johnny]

> I would be /very/ interested to know if anyone using a non-Debian-based
> system (i.e. someone other than Debian and Ubuntu users) is seeing the
> issue.  Debian just swapped out libc's, and I'm pretty sure that
> current/new Ubuntu is using eglibc (the different libc).

I can confirm that my install of Ubuntu 9.10 is using eglibc. I used
the valgrind to see what calls were being made and most of the time
was spent in calls to eglibc functions.

> That's possible.  (That disabling compositing might have an effect--not
> that you're out of your depth.  :)

I have compositing disabled so that doesn't seem to be an issue.