[LUAU] Fedora & mythtv cpu load

[jonr]

Whoever Whatever wrote:
> Hi,
>    I was running Mandrake 9.2 for mythtv up to .18.1 on a shuttle
> sk41g using PVR350 for about 2 years, nvidia tv-out, no problem
> watching live tv or recording while compiling.  So, I decided to
> switch to Fedora core 3 few weeks ago, aptrpm get the mythtv-suite, it
> stutter a little when starting live tv, the frontend using about
> 25-32% of the cpu load, video/audio hicup when I did apt-get update,
> then I decided to re-compile some plugins today, live tv or playback
> un-watchable, it pause and/or stutter while compiling. Does anyone
> know have experience why fedora so much slower on the same hardware? I
> was hunting for the cause for a while, but not able to trace it down. 
>  HD is enabled with DMA,  using KDE as WM, the only difference would
> be xorg server on fedora, xwindow on Mandrake.  Thanks for the help.
> 
> SK41G, VIA chipset, AMD 2400+ xp, 512mb DDR266, WD 160Gb hard driver,
> onboard VIA sound, nvidia AGP MX420 with tv-out, PVR350.
> 
> Thanks

Are you saying that it works fine when you are not compiling or updating 
but as soon as you start to do that it stutters and hiccups? KDE is a 
heavy environment compared to to a lightweight WM, I have been wanting 
to change from KDE to something less intensive.

Hope that helps,

Jon