ok, I was looking at top and memory statistics while the box was running and
didnt see any
obvious memory leaks, but the box was taking a pounding on the cpu although the
video it was
playing was not choppy at all. Maybe my poor little PII-400Mhz box is dying.
(below is from just playing a recorded program)
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
6806 mythuser 15 0 174m 76m 19m S 61.7 15.2 20:24.69 mythfrontend
2378 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 1.3 0.0 0:22.83 ivtv-dec
130 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.3 0.0 0:01.73 kswapd0
2400 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.3 0.0 0:04.70 lirc_dev
8646 root 15 0 2164 1096 840 R 0.3 0.2 0:01.43 top
1 root 15 0 1528 556 484 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.49 init
2 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.12 ksoftirqd/0
and it seems to get worse as it goes on..
top - 08:19:56 up 12:22, 3 users, load average: 3.41, 1.84, 0.78
Tasks: 63 total, 3 running, 60 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 3.0% us, 60.5% sy, 0.3% ni, 35.5% id, 0.0% wa, 0.7% hi, 0.0% si
Mem: 515860k total, 509048k used, 6812k free, 29020k buffers
Swap: 514072k total, 164k used, 513908k free, 192000k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
6806 mythuser 15 0 174m 76m 19m R 62.0 15.2 21:19.31 mythfrontend
2378 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.7 0.0 0:23.84 ivtv-dec
6438 mythuser 15 0 7176 5300 1312 S 0.3 1.0 0:06.31 Xvnc
6450 mythuser 15 0 6280 3688 2840 R 0.3 0.7 0:04.50 icewm
8606 root 15 0 6728 2152 1720 S 0.3 0.4 0:00.25 sshd
8646 root 15 0 2164 1096 840 R 0.3 0.2 0:02.00 top
1 root 15 0 1528 556 484 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.49 init
2 root 39 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.12 ksoftirqd/0
im pretty sure my cpu didnt run this high before. The 350 has hardware
encoder/decoder.
How do I make sure the video is being processed in hardware? or does this not
look like the
problem?
Jason
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:46:40AM +0100, Chris Rouch wrote:
> On 1/10/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > so after upgading lots of things on my mythtv box.. kernel, gcc, mythtv,
> > ivtv
> > drivers,ndiswrapper, etc...
> > my box now locks up HARD after playing recorded material for about
> > an hour or so and the same thing with watching tv through the mythbox.. I
> > dont see a single
> > thing in the syslog at the time of the lockup.. im not running out of
> > space. So I know its
> > really hard to pinpoint where the problem is, but I suspect the pvr350
> > drivers. any ideas
> > where I should start looking?
> >
> > 2.6.18-gentoo-r6
> > mythtv 0.20_p12325
> > ivtv 0.8.1-r1
> > xorg 7.0-r1
> > ivtvdev binary from http://www.hellion.org.uk/ivtv/debian/
> >
>
> If there's nothing in the logs, then suspect the hardware. My box used
> to do this because the cpu overheated. A new heatsink/fan fixed it.
>
> If it is something like this, then running nuvexport (which hammers
> the cpu and the disks) should also trigger it.
>
> Regards,
>
> Chris
>
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