<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<META content="MSHTML 6.00.2600.0" name=GENERATOR>
<STYLE></STYLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY bgColor=#ffffff>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I seem to be having a problem where once the
ringbuffer ,ax size has been reached (5GB in this case) I get the
error:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>ERROR: file I/O problem in 'safe_read()'<BR>: Bad
address</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>repeated in the backend log and the frontend log
shows:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Waited 2 seconds for data to become available,
waiting again...<BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>repeatedly.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Has this been seen before? I seem to have had it in
ever version of myth I've run.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The specs are:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Gentoo running with the ac kernel. myth 0.13. PVR
250. backend runs as root and writes the ringbuffer to a large hard disk (7200
rpm, 8MB cache) sat on a serial ide (asus delux mobo). The front end runs as
user myth. Does this user require write access to the ringbuf file??? It
currently only has read as its is written by root.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The disk access is fine:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><BR>TangleVision-live root # hdparm -tT
/dev/hdg</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>/dev/hdg:<BR> Timing buffer-cache
reads: 1772 MB in 2.00 seconds = 886.00 MB/sec<BR> Timing
buffered disk reads: 166 MB in 3.03 seconds = 54.79
MB/sec<BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Any help gratefully received,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Cheers</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Oliver</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>