EPGExtra Resource/CPU Utilization

[JavaWiz]

I use EPGExtra as part of my PostUpdateEPG processing. Great utility, the program info definitely does not seem complete without the extras this program provides.

One thing I've noticed, is that EPGExtra tends to significantly take over the CPU. In most cases, this is not a problem, except when I am recording a program or performing some other processing.

Is this behavior expected, or is there some configuration parameter to tell EPGExtra to 'play nice' with other processes?

[ubu]

I use EPGExtra as part of my PostUpdateEPG processing. Great utility, the program info definitely does not seem complete without the extras this program provides.

One thing I've noticed, is that EPGExtra tends to significantly take over the CPU. In most cases, this is not a problem, except when I am recording a program or performing some other processing.

Is this behavior expected, or is there some configuration parameter to tell EPGExtra to 'play nice' with other processes?

I guess that, since EPGExtra usually runs right after the GB-PVR EPG Update process and most people run EPG Update in the middle of the night, this issue doesn't come up too often. But you're right. EPGExtra does hammer your CPU a bit. (It's doing a lot of work and, since it's doing some of its matching using the program description, executing some very inefficient SQL.)

You might try using:

Code:

start /low /b epgextra.exe

in the batch file in order to launch it at low priority. (This seems the closest Windows comes to having something like the UNIX "nice" utility).

[JavaWiz]

Thanks... I'll give that a try.