[mythtv-users] mythtv on xbox newbie question...so many mythfrontend processes!

J. Young jyoung82 at carolina.rr.com
Sat Jul 15 02:44:33 UTC 2006


Ok, thanks.   I was concerned because of the memory limitations on the 
xbox.  My mythtv backend server (amd64) only ever shows 1 mythfrontend 
instance.....

Carl Fongheiser wrote:
> On 7/14/06, *J. Young* <jyoung82 at carolina.rr.com 
> <mailto:jyoung82 at carolina.rr.com>> wrote:
>
>     I installed xebian 1.1.4 on my xbox and then did 'apt-get install
>     mythfrontend'
>
>     I added 'mythtfrontend' to my fluxstartup.sh and mythfrontend
>     starts up
>     when the xbox boots linux.
>
>     However, when I check the process list I get this output.  I'm
>     wondering
>     if something is wrong with so many instances of mythfrontend being
>     reported.  Also 2 irexecs and xtdesks....
>
>     This is right after the boot sequence......what's going on here?
>
>       PID TTY          TIME CMD
>         1 ?        00:00:04 init
>         2 ?        00:00:00 keventd
>         4 ?        00:00:00 ksoftirqd_CPU0
>         3 ?        00:00:00 xbox_extsmi
>         5 ?        00:00:00 kswapd
>         6 ?        00:00:00 bdflush
>         7 ?        00:00:00 kupdated
>         8 ?        00:00:00 kjournald
>        51 ?        00:00:00 devfsd
>       271 ?        00:00:00 khubd
>       658 ?        00:00:00 usb-storage-0
>       659 ?        00:00:00 scsi_eh_0
>       716 ?        00:00:00 lirc_dev
>     1064 ?        00:00:00 portmap
>     1085 ?        00:00:00 rpciod
>     1086 ?        00:00:00 lockd
>     1394 ?        00:00:00 lircd
>     1396 ?        00:00:00 lircmd
>     1493 ?        00:00:00 atd
>     1510 ?        00:00:00 cron
>     1529 ?        00:00:00 inetd
>     1546 ?        00:00:00 klogd
>     1564 ?        00:00:00 lpd
>     1586 ?        00:00:00 sshd
>     1623 ?        00:00:00 syslogd
>     1648 ?        00:00:00 xfs
>     1677 ?        00:00:00 ntpd
>     1750 vc/1     00:00:00 bash
>     1751 vc/2     00:00:00 getty
>     1752 vc/3     00:00:00 getty
>     1753 vc/4     00:00:00 getty
>     1754 vc/5     00:00:00 getty
>     1755 vc/6     00:00:00 getty
>     1764 vc/1     00:00:00 startx
>     1775 vc/1     00:00:00 xinit
>     1776 ?        00:00:18 XFree86
>     1780 ?        00:00:00 sshd
>     1782 ?        00:00:00 sshd
>     1785 vc/1     00:00:00 x-window-manage
>     1810 ?        00:00:00 ssh-agent
>     1811 pts/0    00:00:00 bash
>     1818 ?        00:00:00 xtdesk
>     1821 ?        00:00:00 irexec
>     1822 ?        00:00:04 mythfrontend
>     1828 ?        00:00:00 mythfrontend
>     1829 ?        00:00:00 mythfrontend
>     1832 ?        00:00:00 xtdesk
>     1835 ?        00:00:00 irexec
>     1836 ?        00:00:04 mythfrontend
>     1839 ?        00:00:00 mythfrontend
>     1848 ?        00:00:00 mythfrontend
>     1849 ?        00:00:00 mythfrontend
>     1854 ?        00:00:00 mythfrontend
>     1861 ?        00:00:00 mythfrontend
>     1863 ?        00:00:00 mythfrontend
>     1893 ?        00:00:00 sshd
>     1895 ?        00:00:00 sshd
>     1897 pts/1    00:00:00 bash
>     1912 pts/0    00:00:00 ps
>
>
>
> That's perfectly normal.  mythfrontend is a multi-threaded program, 
> and each thread shows up as a process here.
>
> Carl Fongheiser
>
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