[mythtv-users] Autoexpire checking all disks every 15 minutes causing them to not spin down

[John Drescher]

On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 10:24 AM, mythtv at blandford.net
<mythtv at blandford.net> wrote:
> John Drescher wrote:
>> I moved my master backend to a new machine and after this all the
>> drives on the new machine are always spinning instead of powering down
>> like they did when the machine was a slave bakend.
>>
>> I checked the logs and it appears that autoexpire is the culprit:
>>
>> 2008-12-22 07:41:22.982 AutoExpire: CalcParams(): Max required Free Space: 1.0 G
>> B w/freq: 15 min
>> 2008-12-22 07:56:24.940 AutoExpire: CalcParams(): Max required Free Space: 1.0 G
>> B w/freq: 15 min
>> 2008-12-22 08:10:20.293 UPnpMedia: BuildMediaMap VIDEO scan starting in :/share/
>> Movies/dvd:
>> 2008-12-22 08:10:20.322 UPnpMedia: BuildMediaMap Done. Found 0 objects
>> 2008-12-22 08:11:26.673 AutoExpire: CalcParams(): Max required Free Space: 1.0 G
>> B w/freq: 15 min
>> 2008-12-22 08:26:28.415 AutoExpire: CalcParams(): Max required Free Space: 1.0 G
>> B w/freq: 15 min
>> 2008-12-22 08:40:24.357 UPnpMedia: BuildMediaMap VIDEO scan starting in :/share/
>> Movies/dvd:
>> 2008-12-22 08:40:24.386 UPnpMedia: BuildMediaMap Done. Found 0 objects
>> 2008-12-22 08:41:30.133 AutoExpire: CalcParams(): Max required Free Space: 1.0 G
>> B w/freq: 15 min
>> 2008-12-22 08:56:31.833 AutoExpire: CalcParams(): Max required Free Space: 1.0 G
>> B w/freq: 15 min
>>
>> I looked at the wiki to see if I can change the auto expire rate but
>> the docs do not match what I have.
>> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/User_Manual:Detailed_configuration_Frontend#Global_Auto_Expire_Settings
>>
>
>
> I don't think it is AutoExpire that is keeping your disks awake, but
> rather the UPNP media scan.
>
> Try passing mythbackend --noupnp if you aren't using upnp.  Once I did
> that my disks go to sleep and stay asleep.
>
Hmm. I will try that when I get home from work. Did not expect that
because I do not have a /share/Movies/dvd folder...

John