[mythtv-users] long delays responding to keystrokes and ir events

[Darren Hart]

On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 9:09 PM, Michael T. Dean
<mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 03/29/2009 04:36 PM, lj wrote:
>>
>> After making an image of my mythbuntu root drive,  I used the method
>> posted at  http://mythbuntu.org/auto-builds  to  upgrade my mythbuntu
>> installation using the Mythbuntu Weekly Build Packages available
>> at the "http://weeklybuilds.mythbuntu.org/mythbuntu/ppa/ubuntu intrepid
>> main"   repository.
>> So version wise,  I'm  now at
>> MythTV Version   : 20282
>> MythTV Branch    : branches/release-0-21-fixes
>>
>
> ...
>>
>> Unfortunately,  this version still seems to have the "accumulate ir
>> remote button presses" delay bug.  Rats!
>
> Yes, but now you only have one issue causing the symptom instead of 2
> issues with the same symptoms.  :)
>
> Mike

Well I'm back again, trying to see if there has been any progress.
I'm at 20282 and still getting the backup/ignoring of events.  The WAF
is getting hammered :-(  There was some mention about this possibly
being related to a new version of X, my last Xorg.0.log file contains:

X.Org X Server 1.5.2
Release Date: 10 October 2008
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.24-16-server x86_64 Ubuntu

Which version of X are others experiencing this increasingly annoying
bug running?

Someone else mentioned tinkering with nice, I haven't found this
helpful.  In fact I even went one step further and tried setting
SCHED_FIFO real-time priorities on various related processes with no
luck.  I went to see if myth had an events thread or something, but
unfortunately it doesn't change the name of it's child threads so I
can't distinguish one thread from the next in th ps listing to
experiment with those.

I asked earlier if there something I could do to collect additional
information, if so please let me know.

Perhaps it's time to break down and take a look at the source...

Thanks,

-- 
Darren Hart