[mythtv-users] mythbackend "hangs"/stops recording
Christopher N. Deckard
cnd at ecn.purdue.edu
Thu Nov 18 19:33:00 UTC 2004
I think I saw you or someone else mention the >90% disk utilization hang
thing. However, I think I'm not running into that problem at the
moment: :-)
mythtv-server:~# df -k
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/md1 191304476 13584612 168002152 8% /
tmpfs 255440 0 255440 0% /dev/shm
/dev/mapper/vg0-media
576827944 36982668 533985048 7% /mnt/media
/mnt/media is where all the video goes.
-Chris
Jim Chandler wrote:
> I've seen this when my video portion of the hard drive starts getting full
> (>90%). I'm using ReiserFS for the video file system. I'm using 0.15.1,
> but I saw it in 0.16 also. I went back to 0.15.1 until 0.16 get's more
> stable.
>
> Keeping my HD < 90% utilized seems to work well for me.
>
> The backend appeared to still be running, but when you do a "mythbackend
> --printsched" it hangs without printing out the pending schedule.
>
>
> On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 13:51:56 -0500
> "Christopher N. Deckard" <cnd at ecn.purdue.edu> wrote:
>
>
>>Hello,
>>I've been working on getting MythTV working on some new Athlon64
>>hardware under Debian unstable. The backend is started at boot time,
>>and runs fine for a while, but it seems that after a while, whether it
>>has recorded something or not, it will stop recording programs. It also
>>
>>stops doing commercial detection.
>>
>>Occasionally it will not create the preview image seen on the MythWeb
>>recorded programs interface. On other occasions I will get a message
>>"waiting for a thread.." and the backend is completely non-responsive.
>>Upon restarting the backend, everything is fast, and it'll normally
>>create the preview image right away.
>>
>>Sent an email about this a couple weeks ago and got no response. Any
>>help or pointers or suggestions would be useful. The startup script was
>>
>>running the backend as the mythtv user. I changed it to be run as root,
>>
>>but it still has problems.
>>
>>-Chris
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