Please report your idle cpu usage when running xbmc

[graysky]

I'm interested in seeing the %CPU use of an idle xbmc on other people's RPis. Here is a simple command that will look at the %CPU use of xbmc.bin once every 15 seconds for 1 min and log the output to a nice file.

Connect via ssh and look at the output of the following command:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'for i in {1..4}; do ps -eo pcpu,args | sort -k 1 -r | head -2 | grep xbmc.bin>>xbmc_usage.log && sleep 15s; done && cat xbmc_usage.log')

Please post the output of xbmc_usage.log to this thread. Note that xbmc should be running but not playing a video or having RSS feeds running.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '% for i in {1..4}; do NOW=$(date) ; PERCENT=$(ps -eo pcpu,args | sort -k 1 -r | head -2 | grep xbmc.bin | sed 's/\/.*/%/') ; printf '%s\t%s\n' "$NOW" "$PERCENT">>xbmc_usage.log && sleep 15s; done && cat xbmc_usage.log
Tue May 14 15:01:11 EDT 2013 48.7 %
Tue May 14 15:01:12 EDT 2013 48.7 %
Tue May 14 15:01:14 EDT 2013 48.7 %
Tue May 14 15:01:15 EDT 2013 48.6 %')

[pepedog]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'for i in {1..4}; do ps -eo pcpu,args | sort -k 1 -r | head -2 | grep xbmc.bin>>xbmc_usage.log && sleep 15s; done && cat xbmc_usage.log
30.5 /usr/lib/xbmc/xbmc.bin
30.2 /usr/lib/xbmc/xbmc.bin
29.8 /usr/lib/xbmc/xbmc.bin
29.6 /usr/lib/xbmc/xbmc.bin')

[graysky]

@pepedog - Thanks... are you running any GUI tweaks? Which xbmc package are you using (xbmc-rbp or xbmc-rbp-git)?

[pepedog]

It's xbmc-rbp-git. Haven't manually touched things in XML file, RSS feed turned off of course

[Patatra]

Hi, for me, with a self compiled xbmc git (build yesterday)

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '$ for i in {1..4}; do ps -eo pcpu,args | sort -k 1 -r | head -2 | grep xbmc.bin>>xbmc_usage.log && sleep 15s; done && cat xbmc_usage.log
26.4 /usr/lib/xbmc/xbmc.bin --standalone
26.4 /usr/lib/xbmc/xbmc.bin --standalone
26.4 /usr/lib/xbmc/xbmc.bin --standalone
26.4 /usr/lib/xbmc/xbmc.bin --standalone
')

My advancedsettings is $this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '<advancedsettings>
<video>
<defaultplayer>omxplayer</defaultplayer>
<defaultdvdplayer>omxplayer</defaultdvdplayer>
</video>
<audio>
<defaultplayer>omxplayer</defaultplayer>
<streamsilence>false</streamsilence>
</audio>
<gui>
<algorithmdirtyregions>3</algorithmdirtyregions>
<nofliptimeout>0</nofliptimeout>
</gui>
<fanartres>720</fanartres>
<thumbres>540</thumbres>
<imageres>540</imageres>
<bginfoloadermaxthreads>2</bginfoloadermaxthreads>
</advancedsettings>
')

and the Pi is overclocked with $this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'arm_freq=1000
core_freq=500
sdram_freq=500
over_voltage=6
over_voltage_sdram=4
')

Firmware on the SD card, system on an USB key.