[mythtv-users] MythFrontend CPU use

Jerome Yuzyk jerome at supernet.ab.ca
Thu Oct 19 07:15:03 UTC 2006


On Thursday 19 October 2006 00:42, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 10/19/06 02:24, Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
> >As I looked up things for this reply, I skipped over to the settings
> > page to see what I had set, and CPU use went down to nothing. Going
> > back to the main menu, and it goes back to 50% or more. So I played
> > around a bit and it looks like menus are the culprit. What I did was
> > Alt-Tab to switch to a Konsole I had running on the Desktop, then
> > Ctrl-Esc to bring up the KDE Process Table, and sorted on User %. By
> > Alt-Tabbing between MythFrontend and the Process tool I saw how
> > different screens caused CPU usage to vary. Menus uses lots of CPU,
> > whereas other screens (input or display) used virtually none.
> >
> >There are a couple exceptions: the Media Library, and Utilities/Setup
> >submenus off the main menu. I didn't look exhaustively, but I visited
> > and re-visited a number of screens to check my suspiscions.
> >
> >Then I switched to the QT Theme and saw the same patterns.
> >
> >Maybe someone else can try this out - it's really easy.
>
> Are you using G.A.N.T theme?  If so, try changing to another theme.
>
> Mike

That was it! Thanks. Why would a theme matter so much, especially for such 
a simple and static UI?


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