[mythtv-users] High CPU utilziation

[Pete Hartman]

At 02:44 PM 5/19/03 -0400, Isaac Richards wrote:
>On Monday 19 May 2003 02:39 pm, jeff at burstable.net wrote:
> > I do have it set to automatically flag commercials.  Would this process
> > cause cpu utilization even after it has finished running?  I did a test
> > record but the cpu went back down to normal after it finished.  I'll have
> > to play around when I get home from work to see if I can cause it to spike
> > again.
>
>Yes, it would.  As I said, it's niced down to really low priority, so it
>shouldn't cause any problems whatsoever.

Just to be clear for anyone who doesn't grok "nice", basically if a process 
is niced down, anything else that needs to run will get priority first, but 
if nothing else needs to run, the niced process will take all the CPU it 
needs to do the job.  So you can see 99% utilization if it wants that much 
and nothing else is going on, and that's not a problem.  Once you start 
something more important, the niced process will give up whatever CPU that 
something else needs.