CPU load & skins

Posted on January 7th, 2009 by anonym
  • Hi,

    This is what I've notice:

    Using 'Horizonz' skin, CPU load averages 40%
    Using 'Mayhem III' skin, CPU load averages 20%

    Both in idle mode (not playing/streaming anything)

    Playing an AVI file when Horizons is the default skin, CPU bossts to a huge 85% and the AVU video is sluggish and way behind the audio. Mayhem III no problems.....

    Weird??

    **Update 1** nope..... XBMC draw almost 100% CPU power with all skins when playing an video file..... I wonder why?
    **Update 2** Even more weird, video files play fine now, in both skins..... CPU at 27% when playing video file
    **Update 3** CPU load appears to be random..

    PID COMMAND %CPU TIME #TH #PRTS #MREGS RPRVT RSHRD RSIZE VSIZE
    168 XBMC 49.6% 1:37.44 7 176 391 33.6M 43.1M 56.0M 254M

    XBMC completely idle....

    and after restart of XBMC:
    PID COMMAND %CPU TIME #TH #PRTS #MREGS RPRVT RSHRD RSIZE VSIZE
    177 XBMC 38.8% 0:22.32 7 135 342 19.8M 37.4M 38.2M 223M

    Again, completely idle... ( http://pastebin.com/m2000c90 )

    Rebooted ATV and started XBMC with Horizonz skin: http://pastebin.com/m3115cf99

    Same 'just booted and started XBMC' state and changed skin to Mayhem III: http://pastebin.com/m1bda658e

    And now playing a AVI file: http://pastebin.com/m1b075c27

    **Update 4**
    Rebooted ATV
    Start up XBMC running MayhemIII skin and idle at main menu: http://pastebin.com/m6a3ef56

    Playing AVI file: http://pastebin.com/m35407b62

    Go figure.... ;-)

    **Update 5**
    I give up for now. Just rebooted ATV (MayhemIII), started XBMC and wanted to watch Ocean's eleven (AVI, no HD). 95% processor load, sooooooooo sluggish......

    Weird, while the movie played, I restarted it from the beginning. Now CPU load is back to av 30+%...

    After another reboot (power down) every video file I watch sucks 90+% CPU .....

    TIA

    ps. B2, ATV2.2


  • Sorry, bump was to 'push' the edits to the original post, certainly not to draw attention from the devs in any way. I thought edits would save us from multiple posts.

    Do you have a reference to the mentioned ticket please?

    Thanks for the reply.

    -HF

    ps. Me being in western EU now, traveling to Dubai this week, ending up in Almaty, Kazakhstan next month. Tell me about sleep... ;-)


  • Bump, updates


  • No worries, the fact that 'the issue' is being recognized is good enough ;-)


  • Sorry, bump was to 'push' the edits to the original post, certainly not to draw attention from the devs in any way. I thought edits would save us from multiple posts.

    Do you have a reference to the mentioned ticket please?


    Humm, can't seem to find the ticket now. But it is an active issue that is being looked into.


  • Bump, updates

    bumps are not required and just fill the thread with useless info. wait for a reply, devs are pretty busy with rc1 right now. devs are also world wide and some might be sleeping while you are awake.

    In case you have not noticed, there is a ticket about high cpu during idle and a search on this topic in the forums will show that this is a know issue.

    Some skins require more ponies than others.







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