[mythtv-users] mythfilldatabase stunning my system

Greg Foster greg.foster at gmail.com
Wed Jan 24 17:16:48 UTC 2007


On 1/18/07, M. Scott Doerrie <mdoerri at cs.jhu.edu> wrote:
> I have recently had a similar problem with mythfilldatabase and thought
> I'd share my solution here.  We have a large channel lineup of over 500
> channels -- not that we get all of them, but we like to see them in the
> program guide because we can order them as desired.  Though
> mythfilldatabase may be niced, it is not all that computationally
> expensive.  Rather, the updates are IO intensive, and MySQL attempts
> them as fast as possible.  This interferes with recording and playback,
> causing all manner of visual artifacts.  Sometimes the backend simply
> stops streaming or, less frequently, exits.  I thought that increasing
> the mythbackend ringbuffer would be futile since the updates take well
> over an hour.
>
> Since the operations are IO bound, I have installed a 4G drive for the
> MySQL database.  The hope was that this would reduce load on the primary
> drive, allowing the backend to continue streaming.  Since it is an older
> drive and can not communicate at the same bus speed as the primary
> drive, I placed it on the secondary ATA bus.  (This bus also contains
> the DVD-RW, but I doubt I'll be watching DVDs at 5 am when I update).
> This solution seems to be working fine.  The frontend will rarely have a
> playback artifact, but they are not present in the recordings.
>
[snip]

Scott,

Any luck with your changes ?  Seeing the same issues here with a large
lineup, to the point where mythweb doesn't come back with the tv
listings before things time out or get ugly.


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