[mythtv-users] MythTV frontend/backend race condition?
Jeppe N. Madsen
jeppenm at worldonline.dk
Thu Feb 19 03:30:01 EST 2004
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Shane Warren wrote:
>
> The problem I have been having is that if I start up mythbackend
> and then start mythfrontend and fire up live TV, everything appears
> to work great for somewhere between 4-8 hours then the video/audio
> get really really choppy (progressively more so as time goes on).
> If I ssh into the machine I see mythfrontend and mythbackend are
> both competing for 100% of the cpu (backend using 49.1 frontend
> using the rest, when mythtv is running normally it is using around
> 1-2% of the cpu or less). On the terminal where mythfrontend is
> started I see "prebuffering pause" about once a second or sometimes
> more than once a second. One other thing is that if I kill
> mythfrontend at this point (with a: killall mythfrontend) then the
> mythbackend thread that was using all the cpu also goes away.
I had the same problems (but with separate front/back ends). Upgrading to
CVS solved the problem and I can now keep livetv running overnight
without problems.
rgds
Jeppe
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