[mythtv-users] mythfrontend uses 99% of cpu, unusable (SVN 15267, Gentoo)
R. G. Newbury
newbury at mandamus.org
Thu Jan 3 10:34:03 UTC 2008
Justin wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "R. G. Newbury" <newbury at mandamus.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 10:18 AM
> To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] mythfrontend uses 99% of cpu, unusable (SVN
> 15267, Gentoo)
>
>> Justin wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> I'm having a problem where when I run mythfrontend on my laptop it uses
>>> around 99% of the cpu, runs so slow it's unusable. The computer is mostly
>>> to slow to be usable also at the time. I have to kill it over SSH to
>>> return things to normal.
>>> I'm running SVN revision 15267 on Gentoo Linux 2006.1.
>>> I recently did an update of most of the packages installed so that maybe
>>> what messed it up. I did recompile mythtv to see if it would help but it
>>> didn't.
>>> I also tried running it with -v all and -v most and it appears it's doing
>>> everything just fine except for using most of the cpu and making
>>> everything unusable.
>>> It doesn't appear to be hanging. I also tried different themepainters
>>> via -O.
>>> Anyone have any idea what could be the problem or how I might figure it
>>> out?
>>> Justin
>>>
>> What is the video chipset? and the processor.
>> You do not say whether this box did better previously. If so, you
>> probably have missed setting the ./configure switches correctly.
>> More basically, your video driver may not be set up correctly. A via
>> video chipset without openchrome is ssslllloooowww.
>> Need more information...
>
> Yes it was working correctly before.
> The processer is a Intel Pentium 4 M 3.06 Ghz and the video card is a
ATI
> Radeon IGP 330M/344M/340M (As listed in lspci).
> I recently have upgraded a bunch of packages including the kernal,
beryl to
> compiz. I also installed things like pulseaudio.
> It worked just fine after the kernel upgrade and install of compiz. It
> wasn't until around the install of pulseaudio that it stopped worked.
I just
> tried removing pulseaudio as my default alsa default but it didn't help.
> Justin
>
Please don't top-post.
I think you have pointed to your problem. Pulseaudio is definitely not
yet ready for prime time. It was installed by default on my Fedora 8
setup and I had to remove it as I could not get audio to work.
And obviously, the box is capable of doing what you want.
I suggest you try an 'apt-get remove pulse*' or whatever. Otherwise, if
it wasn't your laptop, but a dedicated system, I would suggest a mythtv
database backup and re-install. But I strongly suspect that your laptop
has a large number of other programs on it.
No easy answers to this. as ISTR that removing pulse was a pain,
although I cannot remember the details of what I did (and it likely
would be of no help to you anyway due to the different distro).
Geoff
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