[vdr] vdr-kbd eats cpu

[Andre Bischof]

Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
...
>> I really would like to know what vdr (6943, see top) is doing exactly, 
>> but I don't know how - anyone who could give me a hint? If you'd like 
>> more information, please let me know.
> 
> 
> You could start by consulting the log file to find out which thread
> actually eats up the most CPU time.
> 
> You can use
> 
> ps -T u -C vdr
> 
> to find out the thread's SPID and locate the corresponding "thread ... 
> started"
> line in the log where it says "tid=nnn".


root at linux:/downloads/vdr/1.3.38/vdr-1.3.38# ps -T u -C vdr
USER       PID  SPID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME 
COMMAND
vdr       9709  9709  0.7  1.2  34268 11624 ?        Ssl  18:34   0:00 
./vdr --config=. --lib=./PLUGINS/lib -d --no-kbd -l 3 6 -p
vdr       9709  9710 48.2  1.2  34268 11624 ?        Rsl  18:34   0:13 
./vdr --config=. --lib=./PLUGINS/lib -d --no-kbd -l 3 6 -p
vdr       9709  9711 48.2  1.2  34268 11624 ?        Rsl  18:34   0:13 
./vdr --config=. --lib=./PLUGINS/lib -d --no-kbd -l 3 6 -p
vdr       9709  9713  0.0  1.2  34268 11624 ?        Ssl  18:34   0:00 
./vdr --config=. --lib=./PLUGINS/lib -d --no-kbd -l 3 6 -p
vdr       9709  9714  0.0  1.2  34268 11624 ?        SNsl 18:34   0:00 
./vdr --config=. --lib=./PLUGINS/lib -d --no-kbd -l 3 6 -p
vdr       9709  9715  0.0  1.2  34268 11624 ?        Ssl  18:34   0:00 
./vdr --config=. --lib=./PLUGINS/lib -d --no-kbd -l 3 6 -p
vdr       9709  9716  0.0  1.2  34268 11624 ?        Ssl  18:34   0:00 
./vdr --config=. --lib=./PLUGINS/lib -d --no-kbd -l 3 6 -p
vdr       9709  9717  0.0  1.2  34268 11624 ?        Ssl  18:34   0:00 
./vdr --config=. --lib=./PLUGINS/lib -d --no-kbd -l 3 6 -p

so they are two!

Jan 15 18:34:03 linux vdr[9709]: VDR version 1.3.38 started
Jan 15 18:34:03 linux vdr[9709]: switched to user 'vdr'
Jan 15 18:34:03 linux vdr[9709]: running as daemon (tid=9709)
Jan 15 18:34:03 linux vdr[9709]: loading plugin: 
./PLUGINS/lib/libvdr-remote.so.1.3.38
Jan 15 18:34:03 linux vdr[9709]: loading plugin: 
./PLUGINS/lib/libvdr-dxr3.so.1.3.38
Jan 15 18:34:03 linux vdr[9709]: loading ./sources.conf
Jan 15 18:34:03 linux vdr[9709]: loading ./diseqc.conf
Jan 15 18:34:03 linux vdr[9709]: loading ./channels.conf
Jan 15 18:34:03 linux vdr[9709]: loading ./svdrphosts.conf
Jan 15 18:34:03 linux vdr[9709]: loading ./keymacros.conf
Jan 15 18:34:03 linux vdr[9709]: reading EPG data from /video/epg.data

searched tids ---
Jan 15 18:34:03 linux vdr[9709]: video directory scanner thread started 
(pid=9709, tid=9710)
Jan 15 18:34:03 linux vdr[9709]: video directory scanner thread started 
(pid=9709, tid=9711)
--- searched tids

Jan 15 18:34:03 linux vdr[9709]: probing /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0
Jan 15 18:34:04 linux vdr[9709]: found 1 video device
Jan 15 18:34:04 linux vdr[9709]: initializing plugin: remote (0.3.4): 
Remote control
Jan 15 18:34:04 linux vdr[9709]: initializing plugin: dxr3 (0.2.5): 
Hardware MPEG decoder
Jan 15 18:34:04 linux vdr[9709]: tuner on device 1 thread started 
(pid=9709, tid=9713)
Jan 15 18:34:04 linux vdr[9709]: section handler thread started 
(pid=9709, tid=9714)
Jan 15 18:34:05 linux vdr[9709]: dxr3: configure: video mode: PAL
Jan 15 18:34:05 linux vdr[9709]: dxr3: configure: audio mode: analog
Jan 15 18:34:05 linux vdr[9709]: dxr3: intf: 
brightness=500,contrast=500,saturation=500 at init
Jan 15 18:34:05 linux vdr[9709]: setting primary device to 1
Jan 15 18:34:05 linux vdr[9709]: device 1 has no MPEG decoder
Jan 15 18:34:05 linux vdr[9709]: trying device number 2 instead
Jan 15 18:34:05 linux vdr[9709]: setting primary device to 2
Jan 15 18:34:05 linux vdr[9709]: SVDRP listening on port 2001
Jan 15 18:34:05 linux vdr[9709]: loading ./themes/sttng-default.theme
Jan 15 18:34:05 linux vdr[9709]: starting plugin: remote
Jan 15 18:34:05 linux vdr[9709]: device /dev/input/event4: Budget-CI dvb 
ir receiver saa7146 (0)
Jan 15 18:34:05 linux vdr[9709]: remote: using '/dev/input/event4'
Jan 15 18:34:05 linux vdr[9709]: remote-event4: exclusive access granted
Jan 15 18:34:05 linux vdr[9709]: starting plugin: dxr3
Jan 15 18:34:05 linux vdr[9709]: loading ./themes/sttng-default.theme
Jan 15 18:34:05 linux vdr[9709]: remote control remote-event4 - learning 
keys
Jan 15 18:34:05 linux vdr[9709]: dxr3: cSPUEncoder::Flush: OSD data 
size: 8741
Jan 15 18:34:05 linux vdr[9709]: device /dev/input/event4: Budget-CI dvb 
ir receiver saa7146 (0)
Jan 15 18:34:05 linux vdr[9709]: DXR3 video output thread started 
(pid=9709, tid=9716)
Jan 15 18:34:05 linux vdr[9709]: DXR3 audio output thread started 
(pid=9709, tid=9715)
Jan 15 18:34:08 linux vdr[9709]: dxr3: cSPUEncoder::Flush: OSD data 
size: 8546

Now that they are identified, what should I do next?

I can't see s.th. wrong with /video:
root at linux:/# la /video/
total 20287988
drwxrwxr-x  17 vdr    users          4096 Jan 15 17:21 .
drwxr-xr-x  27 root   root           4096 Jan 14 15:19 ..
drwxr-xr-x   3 vdr    users          4096 Dec  9 20:18 Der_200-Jahre-Mann

/video belongs vdr, as do _old_ recordings. The menue for recordings 
does not show my old recordings.

BTW for the moment I start vdr from within my compile-dir vdr-1.3.38 with:
root at linux:/downloads/vdr/1.3.38/vdr-1.3.38# ./vdr --config=. 
--lib=./PLUGINS/lib -d --no-kbd -l 3.6 -p 2001 --video=/video -w 60-u 
vdr -g vdr -P remote -P dxr3

thus the video-dir should be right?

Do you have any guesses what my problem could be? What does the "video 
directory scanner thread" do?

Kind regards, and thanks so far,
André