Starting GB-PVR takes too long

pcostanza · 2005-02-08, 03:37 PM

I've added and played around with a few plugins and although I have no problems with the use of the program (it records fine) it is now taking 1 minute and 5 secs to start up.

Sub, if you have a few minutes, can you please check my config file and see what might be slowing this down?
Thanks

spyder40 · 2005-02-08, 03:49 PM

I noticed a slow down after installing a skin/apps. Checked CPU usage which showed 100%, of which the GBPVR processes and McAffee AV were the culprits. It started after I started using the Street skin. As soon as I changed back to blue the machine went back to 98% idle. The same thing happened after I installed the video archiver app. I probably should have let it go awhile on the VA just to see if it ever came back down but my wife needed to use the pc so I removed it. My next step is to disable McAffee and see if it behaves correctly. Sure does work sweet on the blue skin though [Image: biggrin.gif]

pcostanza · 2005-02-08, 04:07 PM

Well, I don't have the street skin and use Norton but I have tried disabling Norton and still noticed no change. At least the program is working.

spyder40 · 2005-02-08, 06:01 PM

Have you brought up the task manager and checked for CPU usage? I'm running an old 800 Intel with 512mb memory and normally my idle time is around 98% which shows up at the top of the list when sorted. When I brought up task manager and it wasn't there I knew something wasn't right. I'm seeing anywhere from the low/mid 90's to 98% idle while watching Live TV via one MVP and playing a recording on my second MVP simultaneously. I'm also only seeing around 2.5% network utilization in task manager (100mb full duplex). Unfortunately it's a cheap switch and doesn't allow me to span ports so I can't check it with the Sniffer to confirm. It's really pretty surprising how little resource this software takes.

pcostanza · 2005-02-08, 09:02 PM

Yeah, I have. It starts at 18% and for most of the minute it takes to start, it averages 4-5%. Only when it finally hits the screen does it go to 48%. I think that's about what it had been when it was booting up faster.

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