[mythtv-users] Can I decompose load on CPUs during VDPAU SPDIF playback?

[freedenizen]

On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Dave Richardson <mythtv at derdev.com> wrote:
> I've just recently received an 0.24Fixes update and my FE VDPAU/SPDIF
> playback has degraded from the good performance I had before.
>
> My Load Average ('top') is very high, over 1.00 - often near 1.5
>
> I don't understand, no errors in the frontend log.
>
> Is there a way to figure out whether it's the video or audio tasks that are
> creating such load?
>
> top - 17:47:17 up 32 min,  3 users,  load average: 1.77, 1.43, 1.01
> Tasks: 161 total,   1 running, 160 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
> Cpu(s): 29.5%us,  1.4%sy,  0.0%ni, 68.7%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.3%si,
>  0.0%st
> Mem:   3352372k total,   629360k used,  2723012k free,    24196k buffers
> Swap:  1342460k total,        0k used,  1342460k free,   239032k cached
>
>  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
>  1332 daver     20   0  473m 215m  38m S  128  6.6  20:08.06 mythfrontend.re
>  1154 root      20   0 67416  45m  18m S    1  1.4   0:14.30 Xorg
>  1748 root      20   0  2620 1236  928 R    1  0.0   0:08.05 top
>  285 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.67 scsi_eh_1
>  1291 daver     20   0 34796 9.8m  860 S    0  0.3   0:01.63 x11vnc
>  1429 root      20   0  3736 1064  896 S    0  0.0   0:00.48 hald-addon-stor
>    1 root      20   0  2880 1708 1220 S    0  0.1   0:01.18 init

I'd start by verifying that VDPAU is actually working.  My guess is
that it is not.  Checking the frontend logs would be a good starting
place