[mythtv-users] High idle load average on revo 1610

Greg Cope gregcope at gmail.com
Sat Jun 5 08:17:29 UTC 2010


On 5 June 2010 07:26, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a single core revo running 0.23.0+fixes24836-0ubuntu from
> mythtbuntu's auto builds.
>
> At idle (in watch recordings menu) it seems to be sitting at about .40
> to .50 load average. When playing it goes up to .90 to 1.10, and this
> is running vdpau.
>
> top tells me right now mythfrontend.real is at 2% cpu and 14.2% memory
> and Xorg at 1%cpu and 4.5% memory. (thats idle). wait is at 0%.
>
> It has 1G ram of which 256M is allocated to video. Theme is arclight @ 1280x720.
>
> nvidia drivers 195.36.15.
>
> Why is my load average so high?

What does vmstat say?

How many CPUs does this host report? 2?

Load is not a great workload report as it aggregates too many things
and often masks the underlying reason, that may be nothing at all.

Greg


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