[mythtv-users] Mythtv rebooting system

[Nathan A. Smith]

On Sat, 2006-01-28 at 14:38 +0000, Nick wrote:
> On 28/01/06, Nathan A. Smith <nasa01 at comcast.net> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have the following for my system...
> >
> > AMD 1800+
> > 756 Megs Memory
> > 120 Gig harddrive space
> > wireless nic
> > PVR-500
> >
> > I can get mythtv running fine, but after some random amount of time I
> > will have the system reboot.  I have seen very little in the logs, what
> > I have seen I posted below.  I have noticed that my cpu usage is at 30%
> > -- with no recording going on!  So can anyone help a poor soul out?
> 
> You could look in your system log around the time of your reboots, and
> also importantly use 'ps aux' and 'top' to see what's running when the
> system is up to see what's taking so much of your CPU. Also checking
> 'dmesg' and 'lspci -v' might reveal whether there are several devices
> sharing IRQs.
> 
Thanks Nick, 

There are a few devices sharing irq's (usb, audio/usb, firewire/nic) --
the pvr-500 isn't sharing irq's with anything.  When the system is idle
with mythfrontend running top reads..
Cpu(s):  0.0% us,  0.0% sy,  0.0% ni, 100.0% id,  0.0% wa,  0.0% hi,
0.0% si
when I start livetv it reads....
Cpu(s): 28.6% us,  1.3% sy,  0.0% ni, 69.8% id,  0.0% wa,  0.0% hi,
0.3% si

Does this look normal?  Given my 1800...

BTW: 
I am using an ATI 8500DV All-in-wonder as my videocard (I already had it
-- didn't/don't want to spend money on something I already have if it
will work, I know nvidia is suppose to be better  :}  )


Nasa
> You could also remove the ivtv card/modules from the system if you
> believe it is causing the reboots and see if the system stabilises
> without it.
> 
> Nick
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