[mythtv-users] Is the GUI slow for everyone or just for me?

[Scott Francis]

Check the load on your system.  I've noticed a bug that after a few weeks worth of runtime without rebooting my system load continues to creep up.  This is due to my swap size constantly increasing and the drive starts swapping like mad.  After a reboot obviously this clears things up.  I think the bug that affects this will be fixed in the .15 release.

If your load is a normal one (below .2) then I'm not sure why it's so slow.  I usually get very responsive results from my Athlon 2100 with 256mb RAM.

Scott

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[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org]On Behalf Of Grant Edwards
Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 7:47 PM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Is the GUI slow for everyone or just for me?



> I'm wondering, how responsive is the mythtv gui for most people?

Most of the time it's a bit slow, but OK. I'm running 0.14 on a
1GHz C3 running the X driver on a PVR-350.  Sometimes it takes
several seconds for somthing to happen when I push a button on
the remote.

> On my system most parts are what I would call "very slow".  To put that 
> more quantitatively, switching to the list of recorded programs when I 
> click on "Recorded Programs" takes at least 15 seconds.  Bringing up 
> MythWeather usually takes about 15 seconds too.  Moving around even 
> within the same screen (ie cursor'ing up and down) is a "press a key and 
> wait" activity, with the highlight change taking probably a quarter of a 
> second for each button.

While bringing up the recordings list or deleting a file takes
several seconds, moving around within the setup menus is pretty
crisp.  Sometimes it takes a few seconds for the "delete" menu
to come up after viewing a recording.  Sometimes hitting the
"delete" option doesn't give any noticable response for several
seconds.

> How long does it take for you to get a list of recorded programs using 
> mythfrontend?

A few seconds usually.  15 sounds pretty long.

-- 
Grant