[mythtv-users] Recent "pixelation" or "glitches" in recordings (HDHR related?)

[Karl Dietz]

On 23.04.2013 21:44, Kenneth Emerson wrote:

>     Truely, disk space restraints causing pixelation seems really
>     unlikely,. even if heavily fragmented and with lots of seeking,
>     unless you have other tasks that are generating a lot of disk IO on
>     top of everything.
>
>
> I can add a little more information since you are both talking about
> disk access.  Looking at my backend log files I do see the following
> sprinkled throughout:
>
...
> 2013-04-22 17:32:37.124127 I [29597/29710] Scheduler scheduler.cpp:2138
> (HandleReschedule) - Reschedule requested for CHECK -3 1534 735344
> ForgetHistory | WQAD News 8 at 5PM |  |  | SH014776300000
> 2013-04-22 17:32:37.125000 I [29597/29710] Scheduler scheduler.cpp:2138
> (HandleReschedule) - Reschedule requested for CHECK 0 1534 735344
> DoHandleDelete1 | WQAD News 8 at 5PM |  |  | SH014776300000
> ==============================================================================
> 2013-04-22 17:32:39.702814 W [29597/22833] TFWWrite
> ThreadedFileWriter.cpp:503 (DiskLoop) -
> TFW(/mythtv/data/1061_20130422223000.mpg:99): write(46436) cnt 42 total
> 2785032 -- took a long time, 1391 ms
> ==============================================================================
> 2013-04-22 17:32:41.981064 I [29597/29710] Scheduler scheduler.cpp:2251
> (HandleReschedule) - Scheduled 1932 items in 4.7 = 0.00 match + 0.02
> check + 4.68 place

at this point you have:
a) the deletion of a recording
b) as automatically deleted recordings are allowed to re-record by
    default the scheduler runs, too
c) at least one ongoing recording
d) raid overhead

where do your temporary database tables go?
If all four fight for the same physical spindle that might be a bit
much.

> I have six (6) three TB drives configured in a RAID6 partition of
> approximately 9TB.  On that RAID6 partition I have an LVM volume using
> XFS file system that contains all of my mythTV storage groups + music +
> photos + videos.  Also on these same six drives I have RAID1 partitions
> that have the OS and boot file systems (EXT4).  I have a separate SATA
> drive that contains my mythTV database.  The three TB drives are slow
> (WD Green drives - I think these are 5200 RPM).  Five of the drives are
> located on separate SATA ports on the motherboard and the sixth drive is
> in a RocketRaid external SATA enclosure.

If I remember the devices correctly you have 2+2+3 tuners. If you want
to record with them all at once + delete recordings + have your scratch
space sharing the spindle, then you really should consider to optimize
the raid and filesystem options.
The easiest way would be to switch to a simpler "one filesystem per
spindle" setup. Which "works for me" so I can't really help with
specific knobs to twist.

Regards,
Karl