I demand that Matthias Schwarzott may or may not have written...
in the last days I come accross a strange phenomen: One vdr thread eats up to 45% cpu on my Pentium3 700Mhz system when I did nothing with my vdr except live viewing on a ff card without transfer mode. Some digging resulted in this:
- The thread is the section handler thread.
- The cpu-load depends on the transponder currently watching on.
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Attached is a Patch to simply add one sleep(1) inte the loop before the poll. This results in reducing the cpu-load from 45% to 1.3%. And it does not seem to lose any sections.
If you replace that sleep(1) with sched_yield(), do you see the same effect wrt CPU load?