background vdr thread eating cpu

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Torgeir Veimo wrote:
> Every two and a half minute, my syslog gets an entry like:
> 
> Jan  3 06:04:40 htpc kernel: cx88[1]/2: cx8802_timeout
> Jan  3 06:04:49 htpc vdr: [2369] frontend 1 timed out while tuning to
> channel 9, tp 578
> 
> About 30 seconds before i get this entry, thee's a vdr thread that eats
> about 25% system cpu time. I'm wondering what it's doing with all that
> processor power? As I'm using budget cards with softdevice, this has an
> effect on tv playback.. It only happens when I'm using two cards at the
> same time.
> 
> top - 06:10:04 up 21 min,  2 users,  load average: 2.18, 2.63, 2.10
> Tasks:  96 total,   7 running,  89 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
> Cpu(s): 50.2% us, 24.3% sy,  0.3% ni, 24.6% id,  0.3% wa,  0.0% hi, 
> 0.3% si,  0.0% st
> Mem:    515672k total,   160352k used,   355320k free,    22520k buffers
> Swap:  1815304k total,        0k used,  1815304k free,    61232k cached
> 
>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
> 2388 root      15   0  242m  29m 4140 R 46.9  5.8  13:28.16 vdr
> 2369 root      15   0  242m  29m 4140 S 17.6  5.8   1:04.57 vdr
> 2368 root      15   0     0    0    0 S  3.0  0.0   0:13.46 kdvb-fe-1

It would help if you could find out which particular thread is using
that CPU percentage. You can do

  ps -T u -C vdr

to get a display like

USER       PID  SPID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
kls      27146 27146  3.7  5.8 124132 22568 pts/0    Sl+  10:49   0:08 ./vdr
kls      27146 27150  0.0  5.8 124132 22568 pts/0    Sl+  10:49   0:00 ./vdr
kls      27146 27151  0.0  5.8 124132 22568 pts/0    Sl+  10:49   0:00 ./vdr
kls      27146 27152  1.6  5.8 124132 22568 pts/0    RNl+ 10:49   0:03 ./vdr
kls      27146 27154  0.0  5.8 124132 22568 pts/0    Sl+  10:49   0:00 ./vdr

where the SPID number corresponds to the thread's "tid" number in VDR's
log entries, as in

Jan  3 10:49:19 video vdr: [27152] section handler thread started (pid=27146, tid=27152)

Klaus


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