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

[Andrew Stadt]

On 31/07/18 08:41 PM, Paul Archer 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
>
Just out of curiousity, are the files being served via the backend, or 
nfs ( or other network share) ?

You could try --setverbose playback,network and see if anything jumps 
out at you.