[mythtv-users] Limit concurrent instances of mythpreviewgen?

[John Pilkington]

On 13/05/14 17:21, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
> On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Will Dormann <wdormann at gmail.com> wrote:
> ....
>> Possible solutions might be to either:
>
> And a few others....
>
> 3) Change your browser to limit the number of concurrent
>      connections and/or disable pipelining.  This will reduce
>      the number of requests to your web server (and the BE).
>
> 4) Change your web server to limit the number of
>      concurrent connections and/or disable pipelining.  This
>      will limit the number of requests served concurrently
>      (and made to your BE).  Depending on browser
>      timeouts, this may, or may not, work well.
>
> 5) Just say no to underpowered systems.  You would
>      (likely) replace your mobile if it was not capable of
>      rendering web pages to your satisfaction. Newer
>      generations of processors use less power than an
>      Atom at idle, and are far more capable.  An ant
>      can move a mountain, but only in geologic time
>      frames.

These links are oldish but there's a wrapper script (not aiming to limit 
the number of instances, though) and maybe something else that might help:

https://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/11026

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/491863#491863