[mythtv-users] CVS pegging my cpu and Disk I/O

[David]

Jason Donahue wrote:

>So, I have been running mythtv stable for a while now, and last night I
>decided to see what was going on in CVS.
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>Tv is all but unwatchable. I thought maybe the cpu was spinning on
>something, but even stopping and starting the backend shows the same
>thing...it starts, logs that it's commercial skipping, and pegs the
>resources. I'm starting to get concerned over the life of my hard drive.
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>Any thoughts/explainations?
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Yes,
keep an eye on the dev list *before* trying the cvs :)

In amongst the friendly chit chat there have been a couple of reports
about this.

There's also a fix/workaround posted by chris pinkham:

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>If they are old shows, update your recorded table to set the commflagged field
>and this won't happen.  I'm working on something to throttle the number of
>jobs that can get fired off in this circumstance so it shouldn't be a
>problem in the future.
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>update recorded
>	set starttime = starttime
>		commflagged = 3
>	where commflagged = 0;
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>That will tell Myth that all those shows are commercial free so it won't try
>to flag them.
> -- Chris
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David