[mythtv-users] Sluggish Video

[mike at grounded.net]

This is what I'm not understanding here.

Now the xorg CPU and memory usage is back to what is probably normal. Simply restarting the FE as I work through looking for the problem seems to change the resource usage.

top - 22:36:00 up 41 min,  2 users,  load average: 0.31, 0.26, 0.27
Tasks: 192 total,   1 running, 191 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu0  : 11.6%us,  2.0%sy,  0.0%ni, 77.2%id,  9.3%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Cpu1  :  4.5%us,  4.2%sy,  0.0%ni, 91.3%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Cpu2  : 11.8%us,  2.0%sy,  0.0%ni, 81.4%id,  4.9%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Cpu3  :  6.5%us,  5.5%sy,  0.0%ni, 79.0%id,  8.7%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.3%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   2061720k total,  1643368k used,   418352k free,    45932k buffers
Swap:  2097144k total,        0k used,  2097144k free,  1272124k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
 4568 mythtv    20   0  644m 104m  51m S 24.9  5.2   0:21.86 mythfrontend
 1583 mysql     20   0  144m  28m 5364 S  7.0  1.4   1:18.48 mysqld
 4501 root      20   0  455m  63m  14m S  6.3  3.1   0:05.92 mythbackend
 1875 mythtv     9 -11  163m 6840 5784 S  5.0  0.3   0:42.06 pulseaudio
 1708 root      20   0 72728  42m  21m S  3.0  2.1  12:27.34 Xorg
  604 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  1.0  0.0   0:07.71 cx18-0-in
  601 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.7  0.0   0:03.09 cx18-0-out/1