I now have Linux on my PS3; it’s not really going to cut it as a desktop replacement…
Here’s the output from top while totem is playing an SD MPEG-2 stream off a DVD+R.
top - 20:32:11 up 11 min, 2 users, load average: 4.03, 2.58, 1.31 Tasks: 92 total, 6 running, 86 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 71.8%us, 7.6%sy, 0.0%ni, 19.3%id, 0.0%wa, 1.0%hi, 0.3%si, 0.0%st Mem: 218228k total, 214688k used, 3540k free, 1700k buffers Swap: 489940k total, 164796k used, 325144k free, 98860k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 4271 philwill 15 0 176m 56m 39m S 93 26.4 5:13.64 totem 4089 root 15 0 158m 58m 37m R 52 27.4 1:37.74 Xorg 166 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 5 0.0 0:31.14 ps3fb
The lack of any Graphics acceleration really hurts it. It can’t play the aforementioned SD content rescaled to fullscreen (fullscreen being 1920×1200).
Also, however you add it up the CPU% doesn’t equal 100 or anything like it; so either something’s using and/or counting the SPEs or there’s a bug in top somewhere.
