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<blockquote data-quote="elliottmc" data-source="post: 19968" data-attributes="member: 14268">General consensusHi,Well, the general consensus seems to be that stability is an issue, and most people would like it resolved. This may be stating the obvious!I realise that the sort of feedback on the forums &quot;it crashes/uses 100% CPU&quot; isn't always the most helpful, but when this is coming from a significant number of users then it is almost certainly a real problem.There hasn't been much feedback from the developers in this thread. It's not so much that I personally don't want to come up with a test plan. It's just that I don't know what form the test plan should take. When I was programming, I would be able to ask testers to run through a specific sequence to test a section of code. This is easy for the developer, since you know what the program is doing, so you can direct it to narrow down possible problems.To echo Avalon111, if Frodo (or whoever) were to come up with a test plan to try to resolve the high CPU usage problems, I'm sure many users would provide the feedback. At the moment, we don't even know if this is considered a priority or if we are believed! What's the point in providing feedback if it isn't going to be used? There's nothing on Mantis which indicates that stability of myTV is considered an issue.Tell us how to help, and we will.A potted changelog (written so that the end user can understand it) in the CVS would really help, as we would know if something is supposed to be fixed.How easy is it for a program to determine CPU usage? Could you temporarily incorporate this into your code to determine what the problem is? Personally, I would be suspecting a memory leak, but then I don't know what is going on under the hood. Memory usage does seem to increase with time.Best wishes,Mark</blockquote>

[QUOTE="elliottmc, post: 19968, member: 14268"] [b]General consensus[/b] Hi, Well, the general consensus seems to be that stability is an issue, and most people would like it resolved. This may be stating the obvious! I realise that the sort of feedback on the forums "it crashes/uses 100% CPU" isn't always the most helpful, but when this is coming from a significant number of users then it is almost certainly a real problem. There hasn't been much feedback from the developers in this thread. It's not so much that I personally don't want to come up with a test plan. It's just that I don't know what form the test plan should take. When I was programming, I would be able to ask testers to run through a specific sequence to test a section of code. This is easy for the developer, since you know what the program is doing, so you can direct it to narrow down possible problems. To echo Avalon111, if Frodo (or whoever) were to come up with a test plan to try to resolve the high CPU usage problems, I'm sure many users would provide the feedback. At the moment, we don't even know if this is considered a priority or if we are believed! What's the point in providing feedback if it isn't going to be used? There's nothing on Mantis which indicates that stability of myTV is considered an issue. Tell us how to help, and we will. A potted changelog (written so that the end user can understand it) in the CVS would really help, as we would know if something is supposed to be fixed. How easy is it for a program to determine CPU usage? Could you temporarily incorporate this into your code to determine what the problem is? Personally, I would be suspecting a memory leak, but then I don't know what is going on under the hood. Memory usage does seem to increase with time. Best wishes, Mark [/QUOTE]

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