On 3 Jan 2007, at 15:25, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > Halim Sahin wrote: >> Hi Klaus, >> >> >> On Mi, Jan 03, 2007 at 01:22:14 +0100, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: >>> Well, the tuner thread doesn't really do that much that might >>> eat such a lot of CPU time, one would think. >>> >>> Maybe you can add some debug output in cDvbTuner::Action() and >>> cDvbTuner::SetFrontend() to find out what exactly it is doing >>> when this happens. >>> >> few weeks ago I noticed a similar Problem, that vdr eats a lot of >> cpu >> power. In my HTPC there is a tt 2.3 dvb-s and a usb-dvb-t stick. >> I did some tests with dvb-t stick plugged in and without. >> The cpu load is about 20% higher with the stick. >> Please tell me if you need more info to find the Problem. >> Thanks >> Halim > > Can you identify a particular VDR thread that consumes those > 20% more CPU time? I think in my particular case it's really kernel time being spent by the driver trying to lock onto channel 9. I guess the tuning is done to collect VPG data. -- Torgeir Veimo torgeir@xxxxxxxxx