[mythtv-users] Re:can we all get together and figure out cpu usage - Please respond

[Richard Lee-Morlang]

On Sat, 2003-04-19 at 13:57, Wally Wallace wrote:
> john wrote:
> -Check your X logs to make sure X is using xv to play the video and not
> -xsm 
> I thought xsm was x session manager and I din't know it could play
> video. Anyway, myth says it is connecting to an xv port and my logs show
> xv.

He meant xshm, probably.

I posted along these lines earlier, though I wasn't reporting the system
totals.

Athlon XP 2200, 256MB PC2700 RAM, Asus A7V-333X mobo, Seagate Barracuda
ATA100 HD, crappy onboard via-c82xx sound (for now), GeForce MX 440,
WinTV-Radio.

Here's a few consecutive results from top for watching LiveTV at 720x480
with RTJPEG, default settings:
CPU states:  27.9% user   3.9% system   0.0% nice   0.0% iowait  68.0%
idle
CPU states:  42.8% user   6.0% system   0.0% nice   0.0% iowait  51.2%
idle
CPU states:  40.5% user   7.7% system   0.0% nice   0.0% iowait  51.6%
idle
CPU states:  41.5% user   7.5% system   0.0% nice   0.0% iowait  50.8%
idle
CPU states:  31.8% user   4.0% system   0.0% nice   0.0% iowait  64.2%
idle
CPU states:  29.3% user   2.5% system   0.0% nice   0.0% iowait  68.0%
idle
CPU states:  29.0% user   2.8% system   0.0% nice   0.0% iowait  68.2%
idle
CPU states:  30.7% user   3.1% system   0.0% nice   0.0% iowait  66.0%
idle
CPU states:  28.2% user   2.1% system   0.0% nice   0.0% iowait  69.5%
idle
CPU states:  27.8% user   1.9% system   0.0% nice   0.0% iowait  70.1%
idle

Interesting that my load averages while monitoring were between 12 and
18.

Rick