[mythtv-users] Backend consolidation, aborted...

[Henrik]

Afaik, the DMA problem was solved very long ago, it was a hardware bug
and the DMA engine was completly changed into a pure software
solution.
I would look into PCI latency, see the wiki
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Hauppauge_PVR-150

/Henrik

On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 2:20 PM, bhaskins <bhaskins at chartermi.net> wrote:
> Clay wrote:
>>
>> Kevin Kuphal wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 10:17 PM, Clay <ctmythtv at pacbell.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> The last working config was on 8.04 MythTV 0.21, in service since it was
>>>> Dapper and 0.19.
>>>> I moved all the tuners to a single PC to save some electricity, and
>>>> upgraded to 10.04/0.23
>>>>
>>>> Hardware/Kernel/software... I can't see where any of these would cause
>>>> the
>>>> tuners to stop 15-20 minutes into a recording.
>>>> Actually, they puked if they were recording or not.
>>>>
>>>
>>> That's pretty much the definition of hardware/driver problems in my
>>> book...
>>
>> At this point, I'm hoping it's hardware. Picking up a new board tomorrow
>> and trying again.
>>
>>>
>>> Sorry you're having problems.  This is mostly the reason my backend runs
>>> CentOS and I almost never upgrade the kernel.
>>>
>>
>>
>> After bjorking my master be/fe with updates a couple times, I left it
>> alone. Long as I did, it was trouble free for over 4 years.
>> Only reason I did all this was to get all my tuner cards in one box and
>> save a little electricity.
>> Well, I'm saving electricity now!
>> None of my mythboxes have worked for almost two weeks.
>> ...Best laid plans.
>
> Try this:
> /
>>
>> terminal (command line )
>
> ps -e | grep myth # to get ps of mythbackend
> kill ( ps of backend )
> /
> It looks like the backend is starting before other
> processes are stable.
> The above forces a auto restart of the backend.
>
> IMHO networking is pretty badly screwed up in 10.04, 9.10 was fine.
>>
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