[mythtv-users] HDPVR severe stuttering 'Storage to Buffer' drops to nothing

[Gerald Brandt]

On 2014-10-12 11:32 PM, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> On 13 October 2014 14:33, Gerald Brandt <gbr at majentis.com> wrote:
>> Separate BE and FE, using myth  protocol and a storage group.  The drive is
>> a DLink external SATA with RAID, and it doesn't give me smart readings.
> Is this a NAS? a eSATA disk?
>
> IMHO, Dlink NAS suck, with terrible performance.
>
>
>> I may try to copy all my video files to an NFSv4 server and get rid of the
>> local eSATA drives.
>>
> a eSATA ?? the BE if you start it with -v file as log argument, should
> give you a good idea of where it's failing...
> You don't have the DB on that external drive I hope ?
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Here's my log with versbose on:

Oct 13 11:27:32 mythserver mythbackend: mythbackend[26016]: I 
ProcessRequest mainserver.cpp:1443 (HandleAnnounce) MainServer::ANN Playback
Oct 13 11:27:32 mythserver mythbackend: mythbackend[26016]: I 
ProcessRequest mainserver.cpp:1445 (HandleAnnounce) adding: mythlr as a 
client (events: 0)
Oct 13 11:27:32 mythserver mythbackend: mythbackend[26016]: I 
ProcessRequest mainserver.cpp:1561 (HandleAnnounce) 
MainServer::HandleAnnounce FileTransfer
Oct 13 11:27:32 mythserver mythbackend: mythbackend[26016]: I 
ProcessRequest mainserver.cpp:1563 (HandleAnnounce) adding: mythlr as a 
remote file transfer
Oct 13 11:28:48 mythserver mythbackend: mythbackend[26016]: E 
DeviceReadBuffer recorders/DeviceReadBuffer.cpp:543 (Poll) 
DevRdB(/dev/hdpvr2): Poll giving up 2
Oct 13 11:28:48 mythserver mythbackend: mythbackend[26016]: E RecThread 
recorders/mpegrecorder.cpp:1044 (run) MPEGRec[2](/dev/hdpvr2): Device 
error detected
Oct 13 11:28:48 mythserver mythbackend: mythbackend[26016]: W 
ProcessRequest ringbuffer.cpp:1453 (ReadPriv) 
RingBuf(/mythtvdata1/mythtv/livetv/1232_20141013162731.mpg): 
ReadPriv(..524288, normal) -- waited 2967 ms for avail(376) > count(524288)



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Gerald Brandt
Majentis Technologies
204-229-6595
gbr at majentis.com