--- Alberto Alonso wrote:
> I'd be surprised if the fstab has anything to do
> with this.
I thought it may be a point of problems due to the
fact that I'm running the xBox pseudo diskless with an
NFS root.
> Did you look at xbox specific settings? I would look
> at audio buffering, acceleration, resolution, etc.
> in that order.
I playing with the varios setting but it made no
difference. There's a stutter/pause approximately
every 5 seconds although CPU usage is relatively low.
Has anyone else managed to get their xBox working as a
totally stutter free Mythfrontend?
Did you have an NFS root?
Did you use the nv Xorg driver?
Please let me know
> > Ben Dash wrote:
> > Could someone please share their fstab for their
> > diskless frontend that is working?
> >
> > I found that my diskless xBox is stuttering a
> little
> > although CPU usage is only ~50%. The 766mhz PIII
> > PVR250 backend is fine, and is able to broadcast
> > stutter free to my wife's 1Ghz PIII with only 0.3%
> CPU
> > usage while the xBox continues to stutter.
> >
> > Since the CPU usage is relatively low on the xBox
> I am
> > wondering if the problem could be the MFS root
> mount:
> >
> > xbox ~ # cat /etc/fstab
> > # <fs> <mountpoint> <type>
>
> > <opts> <dump/pass>
> > 192.168.0.1:/mnt/data/xbox /
> nfs
> > rw,sync,hard,intr,nolock,nfsvers=2
>
> > 0 0
> > /dev/hda50 /mnt/fatx/E fatx
>
> > defaults 0 0
> > /mnt/fatx/E/linuxswap none
> swap
> > sw 0 0
> > /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660
>
> > noauto,ro 0 0
> > proc /proc proc
>
> > defaults 0 0
> >
> > #network nfs volumes
> > 192.168.0.1:/mnt/data/music /mnt/music
> nfs
> > noauto,ro,users,nolock,nfsvers=2 0 0
> >
> > I notice that the memory usage is close to full,
> at
> > 118MB or 122MB. It seems like there are several
> big
> > mythfrontend processes:
> >
> > xbox ~ # ps -ef |grep myth
> > root 6252 1 0 16:56 ? 00:00:00
> login
> > -- mythtv
> > mythtv 6258 6252 0 16:56 tty1 00:00:00
> -bash
> > mythtv 6265 6258 0 16:56 tty1 00:00:00
> > /bin/sh /usr/bin/startx
> > mythtv 6278 6265 0 16:56 tty1 00:00:00
> xinit
> > /home/mythtv/.xinitrc -- -nolisten tcp -br
> > -deferglyphs 16
> > mythtv 6281 6278 0 16:56 tty1 00:00:00
> xclock
> > -digital -padding 2 -g -0+0
> > mythtv 6284 6281 0 16:56 tty1 00:00:00
> > /usr/bin/evilwm -snap 6 -bw 0
> > mythtv 6289 6281 0 16:56 tty1 00:03:06
> > mythfrontend
> > mythtv 6290 6289 0 16:57 tty1 00:00:00
> > mythfrontend
> > mythtv 6291 6290 0 16:57 tty1 00:00:00
> > mythfrontend
> > mythtv 6745 6290 0 21:30 tty1 00:00:05
> > mythfrontend
> > mythtv 6746 6290 34 21:30 tty1 00:29:46
> > mythfrontend
> > mythtv 6747 6290 1 21:30 tty1 00:00:58
> > mythfrontend
> > mythtv 6749 6290 0 21:30 tty1 00:00:12
> > mythfrontend
> > mythtv 6750 6290 0 21:30 tty1 00:00:35
> > mythfrontend
> > root 6751 6201 0 21:37 ? 00:00:00
> sshd:
> > mythtv [priv]
> > mythtv 6754 6751 0 21:37 ? 00:00:00
> sshd:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]/0
> > mythtv 6755 6754 0 21:37 pts/0 00:00:00
> -bash
> > root 6891 6778 0 22:55 pts/0 00:00:00
> grep
> > myth
> >
> > I'm guessing that the reason why there are so many
> > instances of mythfrontend is because the system is
> > using heavy weight threads. Would I improve
> things by
> > going to NPTL?
> >
> > Please let me know if you have any ideas, I'm
> going to
> > let lirc wait for now while I get the picture
> stutter
> > free, the wife is not quite as happy as I was
> hoping
> > :-(
> >
> > I'm using a 2.6.12.5 kernel and mythTV 0.18.1-r1
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Ben
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