On Monday 11 December 2006 05:55, Scott Harris wrote:
> > I've released new ivtv packages that fix the high CPU load on
> > the PVR350. There is no need to upgrade if you do not have a
> > PVR350 as nothing else was changed.
> >
> > As usual the sources are available from www.ivtvdriver.org.
>
> Howdy Hans,
> I tested this release this evening and am getting the
> same cpu crippling effects still for a pvr-150.
Different problem, the fix was for PVR-350. You seem to have a huge load
with VBI handling. Turn off the VBI support in MythTV and I suspect the
problem will go away. Do you have a fast or slow CPU? Can you provide
the IVTV INIT messages?
Hans
>
> To recap, I have a dual tuner system, 350 as the main 150 as
> the secondary. The 350 has no load spike with this release
> when I switch tuners to the 150 I get:
>
> top - 20:50:21 up 7 min, 3 users, load average: 14.99, 5.70, 2.17
> Tasks: 107 total, 6 running, 101 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
> Cpu(s): 4.6% us, 94.5% sy, 0.3% ni, 0.3% id, 0.0% wa, 0.3% hi,
> 0.0% si Mem: 1003016k total, 821096k used, 181920k free,
> 16444k buffers Swap: 2096472k total, 0k used, 2096472k free,
> 581648k cached
>
> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
> 2174 root 6 -10 0 0 0 S 89.3 0.0 1:26.19
> ivtv-enc-vbi 5213 root 16 0 5860 3844 2416 R 3.6 0.4
> 0:00.40 rrd_hddtemp.pl 2173 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 2.4
> 0.0 0:02.18 ivtv-enc 5018 sharris 16 0 268m 22m 12m S 2.1
> 2.3 0:06.00 mythbackend 5047 root 15 0 227m 69m 24m S
> 1.2 7.1 0:09.71 mythfrontend 4040 root 15 0 0 0 0
> S 0.3 0.0 0:00.68 lirc_dev
>
>
> I did a
> make
> make install
> /sbin/depmod -a
> shutdown -h now
> pull the plug
> turn the power button on and off a few times to drain the capacitors
> wait 5 minutes
> turn back on
> this times two
>
> After watching now for about 10 minutes the load seems to have maxed
> out at around 15 avg.
>
> This is on:
> uname -a
> Linux pvr.webhounds.net 2.6.11-1.14_FC3 #1 Thu Apr 7 19:23:49 EDT
> 2005 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
>
> Happy to help with any more info I can give.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Scott
>
> Oh, one good thing still, the audio is great! No tiny-ess at all
>
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