[mythtv-users] Excessive disk usage in remotecache on Raspberry Pi

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Peter,

Friday, December 2, 2016, 5:16:02 PM, you wrote:

> One of my raspberry Pi's started acting strangely a few days ago and I
> found it had run out of disk space.

> The raspberry Pi disk is an 8 GB SD card.

> I found that the directory ~/.mythtv/cache/remotecache was using 1.2 GB.
> On a normal frontend this may not be an issue but on a Raspberry Pi with
> only 8 GB available this can be a problem. This directory has many files
> with names like 3707_20161124170000.ts.png.

> Can anybody tell me if this directory ever gets cleaned up by the system
> or will it go on increasing forever. Do those files get deleted when the
> relevant recording is deleted?

> Peter

If I look at that directory on one of my rarely used frontends I guess
not, with 3247 items counting 252.7 Mb with the oldest file from May
2014. If I clear it, start the frontend and enter the recordings list
it fills with the previews for the 8 shows shown and the date is the
current date. So that one seems to be not cleared for over 2 1/2 year.
The funny thing is those previews are not even used as those 8 all
have metadata showing! ;-) ?

Tot mails,
  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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