[vdr] background vdr thread eating cpu

[Halim Sahin]

Hallo Klaus,
On Mi, Jan 03, 2007 at 06:34:47 +0100, Klaus Schmidinger 
wrote:
> Halim Sahin wrote:
> > Hi,
> > On Mi, Jan 03, 2007 at 04:25:57 +0100, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> >> Can you identify a particular VDR thread that consumes those
> >> 20% more CPU time?
> >>
> > 
> > Thats very dificult.
> > After observing this a time here is the output of
> > ps -T u -C vdr
> > 
> > USER       PID  SPID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
> > root      5252  5252  0.0  1.0  31536 10628 tty1     Rl+  17:59   0:00 ./vdr -E /dev/shm/epg.data -w 40 -s /sbin/go_down -l 0 -c /etc/vdr
> > root      5252  5262  0.0  1.0  31536 10628 tty1     Sl+  17:59   0:00 ./vdr -E /dev/shm/epg.data -w 40 -s /sbin/go_down -l 0 -c /etc/vdr
> > root      5252  5263  0.4  1.0  31536 10628 tty1     SNl+ 17:59   0:01 ./vdr -E /dev/shm/epg.data -w 40 -s /sbin/go_down -l 0 -c /etc/vdr
> > root      5252  5265  0.0  1.0  31536 10628 tty1     Sl+  17:59   0:00 ./vdr -E /dev/shm/epg.data -w 40 -s /sbin/go_down -l 0 -c /etc/vdr
> > root      5252  5266  0.3  1.0  31536 10628 tty1     RNl+ 17:59   0:01 ./vdr -E /dev/shm/epg.data -w 40 -s /sbin/go_down -l 0 -c /etc/vdr
> > root      5252  5267  0.0  1.0  31536 10628 tty1     Sl+  17:59   0:00 ./vdr -E /dev/shm/epg.data -w 40 -s /sbin/go_down -l 0 -c /etc/vdr
> > root      5252  5268  0.0  1.0  31536 10628 tty1     Sl+  17:59   0:00 ./vdr -E /dev/shm/epg.data -w 40 -s /sbin/go_down -l 0 -c /etc/vdr
> > root      5252  5283  0.0  1.0  31536 10628 tty1     Sl+  17:59   0:00 ./vdr -E /dev/shm/epg.data -w 40 -s /sbin/go_down -l 0 -c /etc/vdr
> > root      5252  5284  0.0  1.0  31536 10628 tty1     Sl+  17:59   0:00 ./vdr -E /dev/shm/epg.data -w 40 -s /sbin/go_down -l 0 -c /etc/vdr
> > root      5252  5285  0.3  1.0  31536 10628 tty1     Sl+  17:59   0:01 ./vdr -E /dev/shm/epg.data -w 40 -s /sbin/go_down -l 0 -c /etc/vdr
> > 
> > I am not shure that you can read someting out of this.
> > I can only tell you, that the cpuload without the dvb-t stick pluged in 
> > is lower.
> 
> Maybe the CPU load is simply higher for the USB driver,
> as suggested by Torgeir Veimo in his posting a few hours ago.
> 
May be.
Perhaps somebody can check the cpuload with only two pci cards?

Thanks
Halim