I'm having this problem as well, and am wondering what the most useful debug information to provide would be, to help resolve this problem.
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 16:10:21 -0800, Brad Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 10:39:22AM -0600, Neil wrote: > > Brad Templeton writes: > > > > > >On Athlon-3000s people typically see about 80% usage. On P4-3ghz we see > > >more like 55% usage but that number is probably a touch misleading > > >due to hyperthreading. > > > > > > Hi Brad, > > > > Just curious since I bought an Athlon 64 3000+ cpu. I'm also waiting for my > > 6600 GT nvidia graphics adapter. You are saying that when I start playing > > HD, my cpu utilization will hit 80% too? This value is bad! Please confirm. > > I have not tested the Athlon 64. The Athlon 64 runs at a slightly lower > clock than the Athlon XP, but has a more efficient core. But it will > probably be similar. > > The 6600, which is a way overkill card for this purpose, might gain you > a slight amount over the 5200, but I don't know if it does. I presume you > do a lot of heavy 3D gaming if you bought that card, since as far as I > know that's the only reason to get it. > > So far, my experiments show the P4 outdoing the Athlon handily, though > the better memory bandwidth on the P4 may be part of this. Or it may > be the hyperthreading and the siginficantly faster clock speed Intel chips > run at (normally a downside.) > > Now 80% usage isn't necessarily bad, unless you have something else you > need the CPU to be doing! > > My new benchmark is as follows: > > a) Play an HD Video. > b) While playing, run mythcommflag on another video and note the > frames per second. Also note idle times. > > My quick tests for a P4-3ghz, hyperthreaded, PC 3200 memory are: > > a) Play 720p video, commflag SD video -- 85 frames/second, 35% "idle" > b) Play 1080i video + deinterlace, commflag SD -- 42 frames/second, 20% > idle > > HD video coming in over ethernet from master backend, SD video located > locally. > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > >
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