[mythtv-users] mythbackend hanging with busy disk

[HP-mini]

On Thu, 2016-04-07 at 22:50 +0200, Jonatan Lindblad wrote:
> Den 2016-04-07 kl. 07:10, skrev HP-mini:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > A 3rd can be due to a process consuming all RAM & then eating swap space
> > until a kernel out-of-memory protection mechanism kills the rogue
> > process.
> > This can take a couple minutes to clear.
> > Mythfrontend does this (here) when using RSS news feeds to access
> > Gizmodo website (crash seems to be in Qt5).
> 
> Can you give more details on the URLs, Qt version, and if possible a backtrace?  Have you tried clearing the cache, e.g. ~/.mythtv/cache/mythfrontend-<hostname>?
> 
Apologies to OP for the thread hijack..

url: "http://feeds.gawker.com/gizmodo/full"
The FE crash is in libQt5WebKit.so  version 5.1.1-1ubuntu8
The crash occurs after some initial components of the selected RSS
item's page are rendered.
The cache had/has been cleared several times.