On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 10:12:21PM +0200, Kartsa wrote: > I did a seven minute session where I had 5 test recordings which started > one minute apart and ended at the same time. After each recording had > started I tested the responce of remote by just pussing menu button. > After three recordings there began to be delay in menu appearance and > after fourth recording the menu came up in pieces and after fifth > recording there were no menu or if it ever did appear after several menu > presses it was incomplete. This can be seen in the log (timeout waiting > in LoadBitmap). Playback of a recording started to have small problems > after third recording started and with four and five simultaneous > recordings you really do not want to wath a movie like that. If I were you, I'd run OProfile only during the heavy-load situation (3 recordings running, when you are browsing the EPG menu. I'd try something like this: opcontrol --reset sleep 2;opcontrol --start;sleep 20;opcontrol --stop After that, you have 2 seconds to start browsing the EPG and 20 seconds to keep browsing. (Or to start playback and keep watching it.) After this is done, look at opreport -l /path/to/vdr | less Obviously, you should compile vdr with debugging symbols enabled (CFLAGS and LDFLAGS containing -g). I'll lose this mail account at the end of this month, and I think I will unsubscribe from most mailing lists, including this one. We can continue this off-list. You can find my email address at the bottom of my home page, http://www.iki.fi/~msmakela/. Marko