[jay_cee]

Hi -

I'm running XBMC 10.0 on Ubuntu 10.10 on an ION system. I've noticed that even when nothing is happening (just sitting at the home screen). I'm using about 25% of my CPU. This is even after turning off the RSS feeds. Since I'm using VDPAU, I can play HD video and my CPU utilization stays at about 25%.

It just seems weird that XBMC should be burning any cycles at all when its just sitting there. Has anyone else observed this?

Thanks - J

[marv_el]

xbmc runs in game-loop and is not event-driven (yet), meaning that xbmc refreshes the gui 25 times per second even on idle. this will be solved in future releases.
what you can do for now is to set the xbmc screensaver to "black", which makes your cpu idle.

[jay_cee]

Ah. Thanks for the tip!

[Praesten]

I feel I've made enough threads here with silly questions, so this seems related enough to ask in. Can advancedsettings.xml not handle | in commands? To get the output for CPU temp, I need to run: sensors | grep "CPU Temp" | cut -f5 -d\ | cut -c2-5
I can probably neat it up, but it works for the purpose. So I added the following to advancedsettings.xml:
<cputempcommand>echo "$(sensors | grep "CPU Temp" | cut -f5 -d\ | cut -c2-5)C"</cputempcommand>

However, it still just shows up as "CPU Temperature: ?" in System Info -> Hardware.

I followed the reasoning for the GPU temp, which worked fine (with <gputempcommand>echo "$(nvidia-settings -tq gpuCoreTemp) C"</gputempcommand>), but still nothing.

Am I missing something here?

[topfs2]

I feel I've made enough threads here with silly questions, so this seems related enough to ask in. Can advancedsettings.xml not handle | in commands? To get the output for CPU temp, I need to run: sensors | grep "CPU Temp" | cut -f5 -d\ | cut -c2-5
I can probably neat it up, but it works for the purpose. So I added the following to advancedsettings.xml:
<cputempcommand>echo "$(sensors | grep "CPU Temp" | cut -f5 -d\ | cut -c2-5)C"</cputempcommand>

However, it still just shows up as "CPU Temperature: ?" in System Info -> Hardware.

I followed the reasoning for the GPU temp, which worked fine (with <gputempcommand>echo "$(nvidia-settings -tq gpuCoreTemp) C"</gputempcommand>), but still nothing.

Am I missing something here?

One topic per thread! Please make a new thread.

[Praesten]

Apologies, new thread created.