[mythtv-users] mythWelcome and a very slow gui?

[Ma Begaj]

2009/2/9 Jay Summet <jay at summet.com>:
> I am using mythwelcome (which automatically starts up when the box boots
> up).
>
> It works fine, but is so VERY slow.  When I press the "M" key it takes
> 3-4 seconds to pop up the menu, and then the up/down arrows take 2-3
> seconds to react, and after I press select, it takes 1-2 seconds to do
> the action.  I've looked at it with top and it doesn't appear to be
> super niced (if it was, I was going to re-nice it). [Also, the screen
> takes a long time to re-draw when the menu disappears, leaving a blank
> menu shaped hole for 1-2 seconds.]
>
> I understand that we don't want mythwelcome doing a busywait and taking
> up 100% of the cpu cycles when the box is idle, but I don't understand
> why it can't be almost as responsive as the standard mythfrontend (which
> is very zippy). Otherwise my system has plenty of CPU power and is very
> responsive.
>
> Is my setup acting normally, do other people's mythwelcomes also have
> these horrible pauses?
>
> Anybody have any suggestions for making mythwelcome more responsive?
>
> I'm running SVN 0.21-fixes, with about a week since my last compile.
>

I am using mythwelcome and I have no problems at all. It is fast as
the rest of frontend. Check your logs.