On 1/27/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But aside from that, I'm not doing XvMC on the onboard video. The CPU > > is maxed. Would that be the case if the CPU was waiting for the bus > > to be free? > > Hmm, I'm afraid I don't have an answer to that. The first thing I'd do is > use "top" to check CPU load and find out which programs are using the most. > I'd also do a "ps aux" to view all running processes, identify those that are > not needed, and prevent them from loading. Also check loaded modules and > remove those that are not necessary. Lastly, I'd custom compile my own > kernel. > > The easiest way to accomplish this is with a base install of a certain > distribution. Lets take Debian, as an example. Download and burn the > NetInstall CD and perform the installation. Towards the end of the install, > you're given a choice as to whether the PC is to be an e-mail server, DNS > server, desktop, web server, etc.. Cancle out of that and you have a fairly > clean base system with very few unwanted services running in the background. > Build > > Most of what I stated here will free up more memory than it would CPU cycles, > but those services that are running in the background will use some CPU > cycles from time to time. And, from what I've read from your posts, you're > almost there, and you just need to free up a few more CPU cycles to prevent > it from being fully taxed. Stopping some services via their init.d scripts > may get you there. > > - Ken
I've been running top, and CPU occasionally is a couple of percent when the system is idle, but that's all. I'm starting to think about a carefully compiled kernel, that could help. I'm running Fedora, and although I've only compiled kernels under Debian before, I don't expect it should be much trouble. Thanks for the suggestions. -Jerry _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
