[mythtv-users] 0.20 high cpu usage - suggestions?

rob+myth at robnet.com rob+myth at robnet.com
Thu Jan 11 11:20:42 UTC 2007


On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 06:35:27AM -0600, rob+myth at robnet.com wrote:
> Some 30 seconds or less after starting a recording the %cpu for mythbackend
> climbs to 100% +/-, and I get the "dropping data" messages from ivtv (full
> message below).  No message in mythbackend.log, but I need to run again with
> more logging enabled.  Same happens for live tv.  The normal ivtv test, cat
> /dev/video0 > test.mpg, works fine with low cpu (around 8%) and nothing in
> dmesg even when run for more than an hour.  I keep thinking it's an ivtv
> problem for some reason...  but this would seem to imply that it isn't.

A quick follow up, in case others have similar problems.  After trying various
combinations of kernel versions and ivtv versions, I'm back in business.  So
even though the "cat test" worked, it *seems* it was a ivtv (or kernel) issue.
The versions that I'm using now (and that seem to work fine):

media-tv/ivtv-0.9.1
sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.19-r3

Both of those are masked.  Running a masked ivtv isn't new to me, but I
usually avoid masked kernels.  Oh well... it's recording again!



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