[mythtv-users] Myth Very Good at Killing Linux

Cecil Watson cwatson at linkline.com
Wed Mar 23 05:54:09 UTC 2005


Michael Haan 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?
>  
>
Gee, you added new hardware now the box is unstable!  Yet this is the 
fault of MythTV, which was by your own admission was working w/o issue 
prior to the new hardware.  See the problem here?

Regards,

Cecil


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