[mythtv-users] Mythtv .19 live watching

[John Johnson]

chris at cpr.homelinux.net wrote:
...
> Second, both 0.18 and 0.19 users have complained again and again 
> about the auto-expire not working and how it causes their partition 
> to hit 100% and kill the machine.  I therefore don't trust 
> auto-expire and manually manage the recorded programs.
>   
Several things complicate auto-expiring programs. One being the 
transcoding daemon running, the second being there seems to be no 
prediction of how large a recorded program will be before recording starts.

I rarely set anything to auto-expire, because I want to see everything.

I have Webmin on my backend server. It sends me an email with the output 
of 'df -h' when storage gets down to 15G free. When it hits about 3G 
free, it restarts mythbackend with the --nosched option, it also emails 
me a list of the last 10 or so recordings. This keeps it running so I 
can delete programs from the frontend. When Webmin sees the storage has 
more than 3G free, it restarts mythbackend, and sends another email with 
it's PID to let me know it's running.

It's a pretty good work around, but still a workaround.

Regards,
  JJ