[clug] F15, mythtv and gnome-shell

Jeff Stiff smee.heee at gmail.com
Tue Oct 4 06:17:31 MDT 2011


G'Day,

I only see one process listed for mythfrontend, although this is on a
Gentoo box, but shouldn't make any difference for the myth processes.

There definitely seems to be something wrong with the MythTV setup there.

Cheers,
Jeff.

On 4 October 2011 21:40, Eyal Lebedinsky <eyal at eyal.emu.id.au> wrote:
> As I launch mythtv (not touching the first screen yet) I can see this in 'ps
> fax' (see below).
>
> Is this reasonable? I do not recall this in the past (meaning before f15).
> Does mythtv usually
> launch so many processes (which are left abandoned)?
>
> Later, when I am watching a recording, while mythtv shows moderate CPU
> usage, gnome-shell
> is *very* busy:
>
>  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
>  7839 eyal      20   0 1710m 132m  38m R 52.6  3.5   0:50.68 gnome-shell
>  8171 eyal      20   0 1885m 347m  63m S  7.9  9.1   0:23.96 mythfrontend
>
> What is gnome-shell doing here?
>
> cheers
>        Eyal
>
>  1390 ?        Ssl    0:00 /usr/sbin/gdm-binary -nodaemon
>  7538 ?        Sl     0:00  \_ /usr/libexec/gdm-simple-slave --display-id
> /org/gnome/DisplayManager/Display1
>  7540 tty7     Ss+    0:36      \_ /usr/bin/Xorg :0 -br -verbose -auth
> /var/run/gdm/auth-for-gdm-QjMR6u/database -nolisten tcp
>  7622 ?        Sl     0:00      \_ pam: gdm-password
>  7650 ?        Ssl    0:00          \_ gnome-session
>  7813 ?        Sl     0:00              \_
> /usr/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon
>  7839 ?        Rl     0:15              \_ /usr/bin/gnome-shell
>  7974 ?        S      0:00              |   \_ xterm -sb -sl 100000
> -geometry 80x80
>  7978 pts/0    Ss     0:00              |   |   \_ bash
>  8395 pts/0    R+     0:00              |   |       \_ ps fax
>  8007 ?        Sl     0:11              |   \_
> /usr/lib64/thunderbird-6.0/thunderbird-bin
>  8058 ?        Sl     0:06              |   \_ /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox
>  8171 ?        Sl     0:04              |   \_ mythfrontend
>  8212 ?        Z      0:00              |       \_ [mythfrontend] <defunct>
>  8214 ?        Z      0:00              |       \_ [mythfrontend] <defunct>
>  8216 ?        Z      0:00              |       \_ [mythfrontend] <defunct>
>  8217 ?        Z      0:00              |       \_ [mythfrontend] <defunct>
>  8219 ?        Z      0:00              |       \_ [mythfrontend] <defunct>
>  8220 ?        Z      0:00              |       \_ [mythfrontend] <defunct>
>  8222 ?        Z      0:00              |       \_ [mythfrontend] <defunct>
>  8224 ?        Z      0:00              |       \_ [mythfrontend] <defunct>
>  8226 ?        Z      0:00              |       \_ [mythfrontend] <defunct>
>  8228 ?        Z      0:00              |       \_ [mythfrontend] <defunct>
>  8230 ?        Z      0:00              |       \_ [mythfrontend] <defunct>
>  8232 ?        Z      0:00              |       \_ [mythfrontend] <defunct>
>  8234 ?        Z      0:00              |       \_ [mythfrontend] <defunct>
>  8236 ?        Z      0:00              |       \_ [mythfrontend] <defunct>
>  8238 ?        Z      0:00              |       \_ [mythfrontend] <defunct>
>  8240 ?        Z      0:00              |       \_ [mythfrontend] <defunct>
>  8242 ?        Z      0:00              |       \_ [mythfrontend] <defunct>
>  8244 ?        Z      0:00              |       \_ [mythfrontend] <defunct>
>  8246 ?        Z      0:00              |       \_ [mythfrontend] <defunct>
>  8248 ?        Z      0:00              |       \_ [mythfrontend] <defunct>
>  8250 ?        Z      0:00              |       \_ [mythfrontend] <defunct>
>  8251 ?        Z      0:00              |       \_ [mythfrontend] <defunct>
>  8253 ?        Z      0:00              |       \_ [mythfrontend] <defunct>
>  8254 ?        Z      0:00              |       \_ [mythfrontend] <defunct>
>  8255 ?        Z      0:00              |       \_ [mythfrontend] <defunct>
>  8257 ?        Z      0:00              |       \_ [mythfrontend] <defunct>
>  8259 ?        Z      0:00              |       \_ [mythfrontend] <defunct>
>  8261 ?        Z      0:00              |       \_ [mythfrontend] <defunct>
>  8263 ?        Z      0:00              |       \_ [mythfrontend] <defunct>
>  8265 ?        Z      0:00              |       \_ [mythfrontend] <defunct>
>  8266 ?        Z      0:00              |       \_ [mythfrontend] <defunct>
>  8268 ?        Z      0:00              |       \_ [mythfrontend] <defunct>
>  8270 ?        Z      0:00              |       \_ [mythfrontend] <defunct>
>  8272 ?        Z      0:00              |       \_ [mythfrontend] <defunct>
>  8274 ?        Z      0:00              |       \_ [mythfrontend] <defunct>
>  8276 ?        Z      0:00              |       \_ [mythfrontend] <defunct>
>  8278 ?        Z      0:00              |       \_ [mythfrontend] <defunct>
>  8280 ?        Z      0:00              |       \_ [mythfrontend] <defunct>
>  8282 ?        Z      0:00              |       \_ [mythfrontend] <defunct>
>  8284 ?        Z      0:00              |       \_ [mythfrontend] <defunct>
>  8286 ?        Z      0:00              |       \_ [mythfrontend] <defunct>
>  8288 ?        Z      0:00              |       \_ [mythfrontend] <defunct>
>  8290 ?        Z      0:00              |       \_ [mythfrontend] <defunct>
>  8292 ?        Z      0:00              |       \_ [mythfrontend] <defunct>
>  8294 ?        Z      0:00              |       \_ [mythfrontend] <defunct>
>  8296 ?        Z      0:00              |       \_ [mythfrontend] <defunct>
>  8298 ?        Z      0:00              |       \_ [mythfrontend] <defunct>
>  8300 ?        Z      0:00              |       \_ [mythfrontend] <defunct>
>  8302 ?        Z      0:00              |       \_ [mythfrontend] <defunct>
>  8304 ?        Z      0:00              |       \_ [mythfrontend] <defunct>
>  8306 ?        Z      0:00              |       \_ [mythfrontend] <defunct>
>  8308 ?        Z      0:00              |       \_ [mythfrontend] <defunct>
>  7844 ?        Sl     0:00              \_ nautilus -n
>  7845 ?        Sl     0:00              \_ gnome-screensaver
>  7848 ?        Sl     0:00              \_ gnome-power-manager
>  7850 ?        Sl     0:00              \_
> /usr/libexec/evolution/3.0/evolution-alarm-notify
>  7855 ?        S      0:00              \_ abrt-applet
>  7888 ?        Sl     0:00              \_ nm-applet
>
> --
> Eyal Lebedinsky (eyal at eyal.emu.id.au)
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