[mythtv-users] rebooting on the hour, every hour

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Sep 4, 2008, at 8:30 PM, David Brieck Jr. wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 9:43 AM, Steve Heistand <steve at heistand.org>  
> wrote:
>> so something on my FE/BE is causing it to crash at one or two minutes
>> past the hour every hour. which makes watching and recording
>> interesting.
>>
>> Is there anything in the guts of mythtv that happens
>> every hour on the hour?
>>
>> There arent any cron jobs that kick off on the hour and its on
>> a 50% loaded UPS so its not external power related. But its way
>> too regular for it to be random hardware unless its something
>> regularly tickling bad hardware...
>>
>
> Could be transcoding or commercial flagging exposing a problem with
> hardware, or it could be the scheduler causing heavy mysql loads...
> it's most likely a hardware problem though.

EIT scanning? Are you running a 64-bit version? I had regular crashing  
and on retrospect, I think it might have been EIT scanning causing the  
crashes in combination of 64bit. Before I got a chance to test it, I  
installed i386 and no crashes.