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Nov 4, 2009, 12:28 AM
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Re: Mythfrontend idle cpu consumption help
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On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 01:34:10PM -0800, Jim Stichnoth wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 7:09 AM, Daniel Kristjansson
> <danielk [at] cuymedia> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 14:07 -0800, Brad Templeton wrote:
> >> On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 12:22:22PM -0400, jansenj wrote:
> >> I have found much greater use of CPU by the more recent mythfrontends
> >> over the last year in general. For example, while my system would
> >> get decent idle times playing HD content and run quietly, now the
> >> computer is routinely heating up (and running the fan loud) with
> >> nothing else on the machine sucking CPU except xorg and mythfrontend.
> >> (ie. no mythcommflag, which was the only reason the fan would get
> >> loud before, or perhaps a runaway firefox page.)
> >
> > I can't speak for your particular machine. However I had
> > noticed this too on one frontend but after some investigation
> > found out that the 0.21 MythTV never allowed the CPU to enter
> > a low power state, so it only appeared to be using less CPU.
> > When I forced the CPU out of powersaving mode the CPU usage
> > looked the similar when using the same theme.
> >
> > Some themes do consume more resources because they use alpha
> > blends, animations and clocks. This is especially true if you
> > use the Qt renderer, which does these things using the CPU
> > instead of the GPU.
> >
> > During my investigation I also noticed the plasma rendering
> > engine in KDE 4.x consumes more resources than any other
> > application on the machine. For a dedicated MythTV machine
> > it is a good idea to use something lightweight instead.
>
> I have been noticing the same kind of behavior since moving to 0.22,
> which I am running on 3 IONITX frontends (one of which is also a slave
> backend). After booting up, the frontend consumes about 2% CPU
> displaying the main menu, which is fine. Over the next few days, this
> CPU usage gradually increases, until it's at around 10%. When it gets
> to 10%, the response time gets much worse. For example, from the main
> menu, selecting Watch Recordings may pause for 4-5 seconds while still
> displaying the main menu, then it displays a blank Recordings page for
> another 5+ seconds, and finally displays the recordings. The same
> sluggish performance happens for MythVideo as well.
>
> When it reaches this funk, restarting the frontend doesn't help. It
> comes back up consuming 10% CPU like before. I haven't found anything
> other than rebooting to get the zippy performance back. (Makes me
> feel like it's a Windows machine!)
>
> Any ideas for explaining this behavior?
>
> Jim
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I have also seen this a lot on earlier versions of 0.22 though it is not as bad
now, always on kubuntu. However, the long pauses would be after sitting idle
for a long time, and seemed likely to be caused by swapping though there was
not the obvious disk noise of that. The delays were indeed quite annoying, but
I don't get them nearly as much as before but still some.
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