[mythtv-users] hangups/slowdowns after upgrade to Ubuntu 18.04/mythtv 29

[Paul Archer]

No, my drives are active. I get the 8 seconds even after starting a
recording, immediately backing out, and starting it again.

On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 8:57 PM, Stephen Worthington <
stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:

> On Tue, 31 Jul 2018 19:41:15 -0500, you wrote:
>
> >My backend system recently died, and as part of the replacement, I decided
> >to upgrade from Ubuntu 16.04 and mythtv 0.28 to Ubuntu 18.04 and mythtv
> 29.
> >Since then I've had several issues. I ironed most of them out, but two
> >linger:
> >1) The time between starting playback of a recording and that recording
> >actually playing (when it says "Please Wait") is about 8 seconds. It used
> >to be about 2 or so.
> >2) When exiting the "Watch Recordings" screen, the frontend will hang for
> >about two minutes or so, sometimes longer (it has taken over 5 minutes, at
> >which time the WAF got so low I had to restart the frontend rather than
> >wait it out).
> >
> >I've enabled debug-level logging on the front end, but I get literally
> >nothing while it waits. I've checked the backend logs as well, but I've
> >seen nothing useful there. I've done some searches in the mailing list
> >archive, but haven't come up with anything there either.
> >
> >Any ideas? Logs to look at, settings to check?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Paul
>
> The start playing time could be a hard drive that has to spin up.  You
> can use hdparm to see the state of a drive:
>
> root at mypvr:~# hdparm -C /dev/disk/by-label/rec1
>
> /dev/disk/by-label/rec1:
>  drive state is:  active/idle
> root at mypvr:~# hdparm -C /dev/disk/by-label/vid3
>
> /dev/disk/by-label/vid3:
>  drive state is:  standby
>
> I have never met your long timeout to exit "Watch Recordings", but I
> am still using 16.04 with v29.
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