cpu core 100% on idle

bilbonvidia · 2012-03-22 01:37

With debugging enabled, once the library update has run there is nothing untoward being reported in the log. It is the xbmc-bin process at 100% The strange thing is when xbmc is doing anything the reading comes down, eg whilst doing the startup scan, it is whilst it is idle that the one core goes to 100%. wtf. Can the reading have been inversed somehow?

Is it normal, if not any ideas what to check?

ericab · 2012-03-22 02:36

same issue here; and im running openelec.

/usr/lib/xbmc/xbmc.bin --standalone -fs --lircdev /var/run/lirc/lircd
is constantly at 49% cpu; and when looking at the rendering statistics when watching a film, core 1, and core 2 are at 99%

video card: nvidia using vdpau
cpu = celeron g530

**DDDamian** · 2012-03-22 03:48

XBMC, due to a quirk of it's beginnings, often uses higher CPU cycles when idle. Search the forum or Wiki for Dirty Regions and you'll find how to reduce that by adding a couple of lines to advancedsettings.xml

ericab · 2012-03-22 04:11

hi DDDamian;
i should have said in my first post that this is new behavior.
its been so for the past week and a half .... 2 weeks

**DDDamian** · 2012-03-22 04:14

Hmmm, yeah that changes things then. Can you post a debug log here? Might give some hint. Just to keep things sane too, are you using the dirtyregions option?

Only other thing I can think of - if you recently updated your nVidia drivers there was a bug in them which may cause you issues as well.

ericab · 2012-03-22 04:51

dddamian;
here is the logfile; ive enabled level 2 logging.
please pardon my uh... video catalog... i paid for all of those Tongue

http://pastebin.com/THQ9brBg

ill scan it for issues

**edit 1
previously i had dirty-regions disabled; still cpu isues;
the log file above was after dirtyregions were set to 1...still no change.

**edit 2
my nas is off; hence the numerous ERROR: GetDirectory - Error getting /storage/videos/Movie-Catalog_****** errors.

**edit 3
after looking over it, the interesting stuff starts at line 1550.
looks like im getting:
"DEBUG: Error: Requested setting (pvrmanager.enabled) was not found. It must be case-sensitive" hundreds and hundreds of times.
could this be the cause ? --- also; Qlock .. wtf is this ? delaying 240 seconds ?

**DDDamian** · 2012-03-22 05:02

A couple of issues: you need to clean your library (minor) and you are running into the pvr spam bug. Have a look at this thread: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...er.enabled

**DDDamian** · 2012-03-22 05:03

Ah okay - explains the library missing items issue. Check the thread I linked for the real issue

ericab · 2012-03-22 05:06

holy moly;
so bilbonvidia and are issues might have to do with the skin ?

**DDDamian** · 2012-03-22 05:06

yessir

ericab Junior Member Posts: 47 Joined: Mar 2012 Reputation: 1	2012-03-22 02:36 Post: #2 same issue here; and im running openelec. /usr/lib/xbmc/xbmc.bin --standalone -fs --lircdev /var/run/lirc/lircd is constantly at 49% cpu; and when looking at the rendering statistics when watching a film, core 1, and core 2 are at 99% video card: nvidia using vdpau cpu = celeron g530
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ericab Junior Member Posts: 47 Joined: Mar 2012 Reputation: 1	2012-03-22 04:11 Post: #4 hi DDDamian; i should have said in my first post that this is new behavior. its been so for the past week and a half .... 2 weeks
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ericab Junior Member Posts: 47 Joined: Mar 2012 Reputation: 1	2012-03-22 05:06 Post: #9 holy moly; so bilbonvidia and are issues might have to do with the skin ?
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