[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #6192: Long delays processing events

[Shane]

On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Chris Pinkham <cpinkham at bc2va.org> wrote:
> * On Mon Feb 09, 2009 at 05:30:52PM -0500, Shane wrote:
>> Yeah, I thought there was probably other reasons for the backend getting into
>> the loop sending events to itself too.
>>
>> The one I looked into from a while back was caused (I think) by the mythbackend
>> preview generation process on the backend inadvertently registering for events
>> and if timing was right it would cause the loop.
>
> My change won't prevent this if it was occurring.  My change only
> prevents the master backend from connecting back to itself.  Only the
> master should be relaying events, so if another process runs on the
> master server and connects to the master mythbackend process it
> shouldn't cause event loops.

Yeah, it was only an old theory as to the cause of the event relaying loop.

The IsMasterBackend() check you added at the top of ConnectToMasterServer() is
similar to the debugging patch I posted. It will print a message in the same
circumstances and hi-lite any other lurking instances.

I can't reproduce the problem and it only strikes here rarely, it
seemed to occur more
frequently for Eric. I'll keep a watch out for those messages in the
logs, hopefully
Eric will report back if he sees them too or the original problem returns.

Perhaps, a bit premature closing the ticket. It can be re-open if needed.

Shane