[mythtv-users] multiple mythtranscode processes on Ubuntu 8.04

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Oct 21, 2008, at 12:18 PM, Micah Wedemeyer wrote:

> Brad DerManouelian wrote:
>>
>> On Oct 21, 2008, at 11:06 AM, Micah Wedemeyer wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I recently upgraded my mythbackend machine to Hardy Heron, and it's
>>> started misbehaving.  As best I can tell, it starts spinning up
>>> multiple
>>> identical mythtranscode processes that eat up all the CPU and the
>>> backend eventually just stops responding to the frontend.
>>>
>>> I've got it set to only run 1 job at a time, but that seems to  
>>> have no
>>> effect.
>>>
>>> Anyone have any ideas?
>>>
>> This will happen if you set your backend to automatically respawn
>> after crashing and it keeps crashing on you. You'll get a new
>> mythtranscode process every time it starts up again. Find out if
>> you're crashing and stop that from happening. :)
>>
> Are the settings for "respawn on crash" part of the mythtv-setup  
> controls?  I don't remember seeing that option anywhere.

There is no mechanism built into myth to do this, but some people set  
it up that way with inittab or other such thing.