I've been running VDR with a FF card so I'm new to the xine-pluginmethod of running things. I find that the VDR machine is creating avery large number of defunct screensaver processes under Xine-UI. Theydo not clear until Xine is stopped and though they do not take up anysystem resources, they can't be a good thing. I've disabled thescreensaver from the GUI, from the command line, and made thegnome-screensaver app itself non-executable with a chmod -x. I am currently running vdr 1.5.12 with v4l drivers, CoreAVC processes,"walery" xine-lib from the list, Xine-UI 0.99.6, Xine-plugin 0.8.2under Debian 2.6.24-rc4. Pretty sure I'm running Gnome, but this whole X11 thing is new. Much happier at a prompt...I know how to configure THAT!
-----snip------- top - 12:07:01 up 16:54, 2 users, load average: 2.58, 2.51, 1.57 Tasks: 212 total, 3 running, 140 sleeping, 4 stopped, 65 zombie -----snip------- top - 12:17:08 up 17:04, 2 users, load average: 2.21, 2.68, 2.10 Tasks: 235 total, 3 running, 140 sleeping, 4 stopped, 88 zombie -----snip------- top - 12:27:04 up 17:14, 2 users, load average: 2.59, 2.73, 2.38 Tasks: 256 total, 5 running, 138 sleeping, 4 stopped, 109 zombie -----snip------- top - 13:50:39 up 18:37, 2 users, load average: 0.72, 0.92, 1.04 Tasks: 614 total, 1 running, 142 sleeping, 4 stopped, 467 zombie -----snip------- root 6980 6570 0 06:52 ? 00:00:00 [gnome-screensav] <defunct> ... root 26745 25679 0 13:44 ? 00:00:00 [gnome-screensav] <defunct> root 26746 6946 0 13:44 pts/3 00:00:00 ps -ef
I'd be happy if the screensaver never ran again, as it's of no use here whatsoever. Where do I begin looking to curb the creation of these zombies?
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On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 7:51 PM, Todd Luliak javatodd32@yahoo.com wrote:
I'd be happy if the screensaver never ran again, as it's of no use here whatsoever. Where do I begin looking to curb the creation of these zombies?
Do you need to run gnome at all? Its quite processor intensive if all you are doing is using it to watch TV. See the other recent thread on starting VDR/xine at boot time using startx / replacing the session manager and those problems with gnome screensaver won't be apparent.
Also, there is a later version (patch) of CoreAVC for xine that I released on the list which will apply to the hg version of xine (with a bit of tweaking with more recent versions). The updated version will support channels at resolutions different to 1920x1080i (there are quite a few of them).
HTH
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Todd Luliak