[MPlayer-users] Excessive * audio codec cpu usage

[Brian J. Murrell]

On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 11:31:26AM +0100, Arpi wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi,

Hi A'rpi.

> hmm. i think it won't show any valid values if other processes with high cpu
> usage are running at the same time (like mencoder).

There are no other processes (other than housekeeping) on this box as
it is dedicated Mplayer box.  The encoding happens on another box.  So
while I am encoding on one given box, I am decoding on another.

> it emasures real time (not process time) and if the decoding process is
> interrupted by scheduler and the other process work for some time, it will
> look like the decoder eat that cpu...

I can appreciate that, but like I said, there is nothing else running
except mplayer.

  PID TTY      STAT   TIME COMMAND
    9 ?        SW     0:00 [kupdated]
    8 ?        SW     0:00 [bdflush]
    7 ?        SW     0:00 [kreclaimd]
    6 ?        SW     0:00 [kswapd]
    5 ?        SWN    0:00 [ksoftirqd_CPU0]
    1 ?        S      0:05 init [3]   
    3 ?        SW     0:00 [keventd]
    4 ?        SW    53:02 [kapm-idled]
   10 ?        SW<    0:00 [mdrecoveryd]
   16 ?        SW     0:00 [scsi_eh_0]
   22 ?        SW     0:00 [kjournald]
   97 ?        S      0:00 devfsd /dev
  270 ?        SW     0:00 [kjournald]
  271 ?        SW     0:00 [kjournald]
  272 ?        SW     0:00 [kjournald]
  276 ?        SW     0:00 [kjournald]
  277 ?        SW     0:00 [kjournald]
  614 ?        SW     0:00 [khubd]
  973 ?        S      0:00 portmap
  995 ?        S      0:00 syslogd -m 0
 1003 ?        S      0:00 klogd -2
 1076 ?        SW     0:13 [rpciod]
 1077 ?        SW     0:00 [lockd]
 1111 ?        S      0:00 /usr/sbin/atd
 1137 ?        SL     0:00 ntpd -A
 1162 ?        S      0:00 sshd
 1629 ?        S      0:54  \_ sshd
 1631 ?        S      2:34  |   \_ /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm.real -name Terminal
 1641 pts/0    S      0:00  |       \_ bash
 2105 pts/0    S      2:11  |           \_ gtop
 2106 pts/0    S      0:00  |           \_ su - root
 2109 pts/0    S      0:00  |               \_ -bash
 4071 ?        S      0:00  \_ sshd
 4074 ?        R      0:00      \_ ps axf
 1529 ?        S      0:00 crond
 1553 ?        S      0:00 xfs -port -1 -daemon -droppriv -user xfs
 1622 tty2     S      0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty2
 1623 tty3     S      0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty3
 1624 tty4     S      0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty4
 1625 tty5     S      0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty5
 1626 tty6     S      0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty6

b.

-- 
Brian J. Murrell