xbmc eden excessive cpu use while idle

graysky · 2012-04-09 21:09:49

Seems like the problem described over on the xbmc forums is affecting my box as well. Does this happen for other Archers? The OP over there is running Arch i686 and I can confirm this "bug" on x86_64.

Link: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=128343

litemotiv · 2012-04-09 21:21:29

I've had this issue with xbmc since version 9, between 20-30% idle usage on my atom nettop. It's really annoying, i think it's related to the gui in some way...

edit: here's a post i made over a year ago on their forums about this: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=89011&page=2

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.:B:. · 2012-04-09 21:53:47

Did both you guys try the Dirty Regions setting? Works pretty fine here (LTS kernel, Eden 11.0).

graysky · 2012-04-09 22:02:59

I did, B. take a look at that xbmc forum post I referenced. No help with those settings for me.

cmudik · 2012-04-09 22:43:13

I had sleepless night yesterday. When I started my htpc, cpu use was about 100 %. Then I tried move addons folder in ~/.xbmc to addons.save and restarted htpc. With dirty regions enabled my cpu usage was about 9 % while idle. I think problem was in some addon. I am running on x86_64 architecture.

.:B:. · 2012-04-09 22:53:11

graysky wrote:

I did, B. take a look at that xbmc forum post I referenced. No help with those settings for me.

There are more possibilities than just the one posted in that thread.

graysky · 2012-04-09 22:53:56

I tried clearing the .xbmc directory and starting fresh but had the same result. Did you remove addons from a default install? If so which ones?

EDIT: I did the same as you: moved the plugins dir to plugins-old and found no change in cpu usage. Xbmc did recreate the directory, but it was completely empty.

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litemotiv · 2012-04-10 11:04:56

.:B:. wrote:

Did both you guys try the Dirty Regions setting? Works pretty fine here (LTS kernel, Eden 11.0).

I hadn't enabled dirtyregions yet, i'm now down to 5% cpu load.

.:B:. · 2012-04-10 12:13:02

That's good, no? Graysky, I think it is a bit excessive to claim 6% CPU usage is 'high' (as you do in that thread on the Xbmc forums). Xbmc will always refresh some part of the screen (even with dirty regions). It's all OpenGL.

litemotiv · 2012-04-10 12:17:24

.:B:. wrote:

That's good, no? Graysky, I think it is a bit excessive to claim 6% CPU usage is 'high' (as you do in that thread on the Xbmc forums). Xbmc will always refresh some part of the screen (even with dirty regions). It's all OpenGL.

Yes it's good i think, i'm running on an Atom 330 so 5% is pretty decent considering the cpu's power/capabilities.

.:B:. · 2012-04-10 13:42:11

My E-350 is similar. I believe it was easily in the 20% range with Dharma (but that was on an AppleTV, which has a Pentium M 1 GHz).

graysky · 2012-04-10 19:02:55

.:B:. wrote:

That's good, no? Graysky, I think it is a bit excessive to claim 6% CPU usage is 'high' (as you do in that thread on the Xbmc forums). Xbmc will always refresh some part of the screen (even with dirty regions). It's all OpenGL.

6 % is fine but it's ~25 % on that Atom system and 25-30 % on the OP's system from that thread. I would term those numbers as excessive for an application to be idle.

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