[mythtv-users] Skip hangs for some recordings

[Leighton Brough]

Leighton Brough wrote:
> Michael Fox wrote:
>   
>>> It's a combined front/backend system so the recordings are written
>>> locally. It's formatted as ext3, here's the relevant line from /etc/fstab:
>>>
>>> /dev/hda7       /mythtv         ext3    defaults        0       2
>>>     
>>>       
>> Well thats not the issue then, you dont happen to have a failing drive
>> by chance. Whats the dmesg output show (hopefully no current errors
>> relating to ide drives at the bottom).
>>   
>>     
> The dmesg output is clean, and there's no evidence of disk failures. The 
> partition is around 95% full, but I assume this pretty much normal for a 
> mythtv box that's been in use for a while.
>
> Incidentally, the recordings where skips hangs seem to stay the same - 
> the problem is repeatable.
>   
I've just checked the frontend log, and it's filling up with messages like:

2006-05-15 23:30:07.778 Broadcasting free space avail

when the hang occurs.

Does anyone know what this means?

Leighton