[mythtv-users] Calling mythfilldatabase with taskset?

Yeechang Lee ylee at pobox.com
Mon May 11 18:10:47 UTC 2009


John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> says:
> > It seems that on my SMP system, mythfilldatabas segfaults quite
> > often.
> 
> I have ran mythtv on a at least 1 SMP box every single day since
> 2004 and I have never seen this.

Me, neither, since 2005.

mythfilldatabase has always segfaulted slightly more often than the
average application, yes, but I wouldn't call it "quite often."
Looking at dmesg on my Hyperthreading-enabled frontend/backend, I see
one in the past 18 days.

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Backend:		Quad-core Xeon 1.6GHz, 6.6TB sw RAID 6
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