[RaVeNV1]

"Failed to stop xbmc-service.service: Unit xbmc-service.service not loaded." is the response i get, when i try to execute "systemctl stop xbmc-service".

But without the "-service" prefix it works.

So, i did the steps you mentioned, and the load is the same.

Roundabout 70% right now, 5 minutes after bootup.

Edit: this is the freshest log i have, maybe its useful: http://xbmclogs.com/show.php?id=204351

[Milhouse]

Seeing the same as RaVeNV1, cpu 70-80% with no activity.
This is with a new xbmc folder.

You're measuring this with top (or maybe bcmstat.sh)?

Because right now, with stock Confluence, I'm seeing under 20% (actually, with rbphdmi having switched off the HDMI, I'm currently seeing a total load of 14-15%).

---

But without the "-service" prefix it works.

Sorry duff instructions, wrote it from memory - yes, remove the -service - have updated the original post.

[RaVeNV1]

top says: 390 1 root R 306m 82.0 0 73.5 /usr/lib/xbmc/xbmc.bin --standalone -fs --lircdev /run/lirc/lircd


CPU load over 70%, but it switches between 60% and 80%, as i mentioned.

[Milhouse]

Can you paste the output from "pstree $(pidof xbmc.bin)" - it won't help much, but it's difficult to "see" what xbmc is doing unless it outputs something... pstree should show the threads belonging to the xbmc.bin process.

[RaVeNV1]

OpenELEC:~ # pstree $(pidof xbmc.bin)
xbmc.bin-+-2*[{AESink}]
|-{ActiveAE}
|-{AirPlayServer}
|-4*[{CECAdapter}]
|-{CRBPWorker}
|-{EventServer}
|-{HCEC Notify}
|-{HDispmanx Notif}
|-{HTV Notify}
|-{ILCS_HOST}
|-{JobWorker}
|-4*[{LanguageInvoker}]
|-{PeripBusCEC}
|-{PeripBusUSBUdev}
|-{TCPServer}
|-{VCHIQ completio}
|-2*[{libmicrohttpd}]
`-2*[{xbmc.bin}]

[Milhouse]

The only obvious difference between your threads and my threads is you have "4*[{CECAdapter}]" threads - I've disabled CEC in XBMC as my monitor has no CEC support.

What happens if you turn off/disable CEC - any change?

Edit: I've enabled the CEC adapter on my Pi and after restarting XBMC I also have the "4*[{CECAdapter}]" threads but after a few minutes load is hovering around 20% so that's not likely to be the reason unless libcec is going bananas on your system for some reason.

[RaVeNV1]

It remains the same.

xbmc.bin-+-2*[{AESink}]
|-{ActiveAE}
|-{AirPlayServer}
|-{CRBPWorker}
|-{EventServer}
|-{HCEC Notify}
|-{HDispmanx Notif}
|-{HTV Notify}
|-{ILCS_HOST}
|-{JobWorker}
|-4*[{LanguageInvoker}]
|-{PeripBusCEC}
|-{PeripBusUSBUdev}
|-{TCPServer}
|-{VCHIQ completio}
|-2*[{libmicrohttpd}]
`-2*[{xbmc.bin}]


Edit: Suddenly, there's no disk image of your build, i would try it with a clean and fresh install of your build.

I installed OE 4.0.1 first via disk image, and then updated to your build via OpenELEC Dev Update.
Maybe there was a failure, i dont know, i'm not familiar with this.

[popcornmix]

Code:

top -H

Will show the CPU usage of each thread.

[Milhouse]

Code:

top -H

Will show the CPU usage of each thread.

Sadly, not on OpenELEC...

(maybe I can build "real" top somehow...)

[RaVeNV1]

OpenELEC:~ # top -H
top: invalid option -- 'H'
BusyBox v1.22.1 (2014-05-16 19:17:29 BST) multi-call binary.

Usage: top [-b] [-nCOUNT] [-dSECONDS] [-m]

Provide a view of process activity in real time.
Read the status of all processes from /proc each SECONDS
and display a screenful of them.
Keys:
N/M/P/T: show CPU usage, sort by pid/mem/cpu/time
S: show memory
R: reverse sort
H: toggle threads, 1: toggle SMP
Q,^C: exit

Options:
-b Batch mode
-n N Exit after N iterations
-d N Delay between updates
-m Same as 's' key

Code:

tc/eventlircd.d --socket=/run/lirc/lircd --release=_UP
  358     1 root     S     2092  0.5   0  0.0 /usr/bin/rpcbind
   51     2 root     SW<      0  0.0   0  0.0 [VCHIQr-0]
   68     2 root     SW       0  0.0   0  0.0 [mmcqd/0]
    9     2 root     SW       0  0.0   0  0.0 [rcu_preempt]
   50     2 root     SW<      0  0.0   0  0.0 [VCHIQ-0]
   93     2 root     SW<      0  0.0   0  0.0 [loop0]
   21     2 root     SW       0  0.0   0  0.0 [khubd]
   87     2 root     SW       0  0.0   0  0.0 [ext4lazyinit]
   10     2 root     SW       0  0.0   0  0.0 [rcuop/0]
  183     2 root     SW       0  0.0   0  0.0 [kworker/0:3]
    3     2 root     SW       0  0.0   0  0.0 [ksoftirqd/0]
   85     2 root     SW       0  0.0   0  0.0 [jbd2/mmcblk0p2-]
   15     2 root     SW       0  0.0   0  0.0 [watchdog/0]
   61     2 root     SW       0  0.0   0  0.0 [kworker/u2:2]
    6     2 root     SW       0  0.0   0  0.0 [kworker/u2:0]
   22     2 root     SW       0  0.0   0  0.0 [kworker/0:1]
    2     0 root     SW       0  0.0   0  0.0 [kthreadd]
    4     2 root     SW       0  0.0   0  0.0 [kworker/0:0]
    5     2 root     SW<      0  0.0   0  0.0 [kworker/0:0H]
    7     2 root     SW       0  0.0   0  0.0 [rcuc/0]
    8     2 root     SW       0  0.0   0  0.0 [rcub/0]
   11     2 root     SW       0  0.0   0  0.0 [rcu_sched]
   12     2 root     SW       0  0.0   0  0.0 [rcuos/0]
   13     2 root     SW       0  0.0   0  0.0 [rcu_bh]
   14     2 root     SW       0  0.0   0  0.0 [rcuob/0]
   16     2 root     SW<      0  0.0   0  0.0 [khelper]
   17     2 root     SW       0  0.0   0  0.0 [kdevtmpfs]
   18     2 root     SW<      0  0.0   0  0.0 [writeback]
   19     2 root     SW<      0  0.0   0  0.0 [bioset]
   20     2 root     SW<      0  0.0   0  0.0 [kblockd]
   23     2 root     SW<      0  0.0   0  0.0 [rpciod]
   26     2 root     SW       0  0.0   0  0.0 [kswapd0]
   27     2 root     SW       0  0.0   0  0.0 [fsnotify_mark]
   28     2 root     SW<      0  0.0   0  0.0 [nfsiod]
   29     2 root     SW<      0  0.0   0  0.0 [cifsiod]
   30     2 root     SW       0  0.0   0  0.0 [jfsIO]
   31     2 root     SW       0  0.0   0  0.0 [jfsCommit]
   32     2 root     SW       0  0.0   0  0.0 [jfsSync]
   33     2 root     SW<      0  0.0   0  0.0 [xfsalloc]
   34     2 root     SW<      0  0.0   0  0.0 [xfs_mru_cache]
   35     2 root     SW<      0  0.0   0  0.0 [xfslogd]
   36     2 root     SW<      0  0.0   0  0.0 [crypto]
   52     2 root     SW<      0  0.0   0  0.0 [VCHIQs-0]
   53     2 root     SW<      0  0.0   0  0.0 [iscsi_eh]
   54     2 root     SW<      0  0.0   0  0.0 [bcm2708_spi.0]
   55     2 root     SW<      0  0.0   0  0.0 [dwc_otg]
   56     2 root     SW<      0  0.0   0  0.0 [DWC Notificatio]
   57     2 root     SW       0  0.0   0  0.0 [kworker/u2:1]
   58     2 root     SW<      0  0.0   0  0.0 [ipv6_addrconf]
   59     2 root     SW<      0  0.0   0  0.0 [bioset]
   60     2 root     SW<      0  0.0   0  0.0 [deferwq]
   86     2 root     SW<      0  0.0   0  0.0 [ext4-rsv-conver]
  135     2 root     SW       0  0.0   0  0.0 [kworker/0:2]
  255     2 root     SW       0  0.0   0  0.0 [kworker/u2:3]
  401     2 root     SW       0  0.0   0  0.0 [VCHIQka-0]

[Milhouse]

OK, this is just a hack but should work... I've grabbed top from Raspbian:

Code:

cd /storage
mkdir fulltop
cd fulltop
wget http://www.nmacleod.com/public/fulltop.tar.gz -qO - | tar xzf -

Now "/storage/fulltop/fulltop.sh -H" should work on OpenELEC.

---

Fellas, please use [code] tags when posting formatted results... makes reading that bit easier!

[RaVeNV1]

Code:

OpenELEC:~/fulltop # /storage/fulltop/fulltop.sh -H
top - 12:57:32 up 9 min,  1 user,  load average: 1.02, 1.00, 0.60
Threads: 100 total,   2 running,  98 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
%Cpu(s): 55.0 us,  7.3 sy,  1.7 ni, 36.1 id,  0.0 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.0 si,  0.0 st
KiB Mem:    381356 total,   356820 used,    24536 free,    34420 buffers
KiB Swap:        0 total,        0 used,        0 free,   275284 cached


PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S  %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
  392 root      20   0  303m  39m  16m R  52.9 10.7   5:03.00 xbmc.bin
  410 root      21   1  303m  39m  16m S   2.9 10.7   0:09.88 PeripBusCEC
   51 root       1 -19     0    0    0 S   2.3  0.0   0:13.40 VCHIQr-0
  468 root      20   0  2880 1236  924 R   1.6  0.3   0:00.29 top
  409 root      20   0  303m  39m  16m S   1.3 10.7   0:11.87 CECAdapter
  402 root      19  -1  303m  39m  16m S   1.0 10.7   0:04.10 VCHIQ completio
  441 root      20   0  303m  39m  16m S   0.6 10.7   0:03.25 LanguageInvoker
    9 root      20   0     0    0    0 S   0.3  0.0   0:01.83 rcu_preempt
   50 root       1 -19     0    0    0 S   0.3  0.0   0:02.86 VCHIQ-0
  183 root      20   0     0    0    0 S   0.3  0.0   0:00.29 kworker/0:3
  202 avahi     20   0  2656 1500 1308 S   0.3  0.4   0:00.61 avahi-daemon
    1 root      20   0  3744 2408 1544 S   0.0  0.6   0:02.67 systemd
    2 root      20   0     0    0    0 S   0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kthreadd
    3 root      20   0     0    0    0 S   0.0  0.0   0:00.35 ksoftirqd/0
    4 root      20   0     0    0    0 S   0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kworker/0:0
    5 root       0 -20     0    0    0 S   0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kworker/0:0H
    7 root      -2   0     0    0    0 S   0.0  0.0   0:00.00 rcuc/0

Thats the output.

I must mention, that I formatted the SD, installed OE 4.0.1 and then updated to your build.

So no addons, scripts etc. installed anymore. Just your "naked" build.

[Milhouse]

[code] tags would make that output a lot more readable... just saying (again).

[Martijn]

and rather use pastebin.com to not dump this on our forum

[Milhouse]

Try:

Code:

/storage/fulltop/fulltop.sh -H -p $(pidof xbmc.bin)

and while top is running, press T (capital T!) so that processes and threads are sorted by cumulative time - this should result in the "busy" thread bubbling to the top...

---

and rather use pastebin.com to not dump this on our forum

For a relatively small number of lines I don't see the harm. For longer logs, you're absolutely correct.