[mythtv-users] Myth Very Good at Killing Linux

[Maverick]

Unless you're running Myth as root, it doesn't have the power or
abilities to lockup Linux. Linux is very protective about processes
and their effects on the system that globally can't easily crash the
whole system/kernel. It's probably the driver and/or card you added,
or the increased irq/dma traffic as a result of the new hardware.
Something at a hardware/driver level is causing the problem... could
be ivtv, as alot of people report ivtv lockups, and I too had problems
using ivtv and pvr-350 tvout on old hardware, but I see you are not
doing any of that.

I'd start by removing the new driver and card, and see if you regain
the stability.

Just don't blame userland software for system problems ;)

-Kenneth


On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 23:49:55 -0500, Michael Haan <michael.haan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, I've had software that wasn't very stable on linux, I've had
> software that brought linux to a crawl, software that consistently
> froze windows and now I've managed to find a package that routinely
> freezes linux - Myth.  The box is a combo FE/BE and isn't lacking for
> resources (AMD64 3800+, 1G RAM, 750G SATA, 20G IDE for OS, PVR-350 for
> encoding, nVidia 6600 GT for tv-out) and was actually running like a
> champ (recording one show, flagging another while we decoded flac to
> different players) with no hiccups (maybe 40-50% CPU usage) until just
> recently.  I added a new sound card (Turtle Beach Riviera) so I could
> get optical spdif and the setup was about as simple as they come.
> However, now I'm having issues with myth freezing the box.  The box is
> not under load - running around 5-15% - but pausing, rewinding ffwding
> all have the ability to freeze the box (though more often its rw/ff).
> Someone please tell me that there is an explanation for why this is
> happening.  How is myth taking down this box?
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