[mythtv-users] High CPU Usuage

Bruce Markey bjm at lvcm.com
Thu Aug 26 00:41:53 EDT 2004


MacNean C. Tyrrell wrote:
> MacNean C. Tyrrell wrote:
> 
>> So when i boot my system everything is fine and dandy, but over time 
>> mythfrontend seems to use a lot of CPU.  I have a celeron 2gig and a 
>> pvr250.  The back end while recording uses very little.  But as soon 
>> as mythfrontend starts it's using between 19-22% of the cpu while 
>> doing nothing.  If i watch a recording it starts another thread that 
>> runs about 68%.  So i have two mythfrontend threads running using 90%, 

Well you didn't mention what version but there had been a bug
not too long ago that caused the Playback Preview to run after
you left the screen. Try going to Setup->TV Settings->Playback
and uncheck "Display live preview of recordings" then restart
mythfrontend.

--  bjm


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