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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Well, I think I have my problem resolved now....
after my 3rd install of MythDora... I decided to let IT decide how to do the
partitions and all seems to be working now! (oops)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have a feeling it was simply filling up my main
hdd space and ran out of memory.... </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>However, I"ve gotten my system to freeze in cases
where I tried to rip a copy protected CD/DVD ... I"m not sure about regular DVDs
though, I"ll try that soon and let you guys know what happens in this
thread.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks for all the help so far! Through this list,
i've gotten further in the past week than I have gotten in the past say... few
months on my own ! :P</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Jonathan Seawright</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=fancypantalons@gmail.com href="mailto:fancypantalons@gmail.com">Brett
Kosinski</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=mythtv-users@mythtv.org
href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">Discussion about mythtv</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, June 06, 2007 10:02
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv
filling up disk space?</DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=gmail_quote>On 6/6/07, <B class=gmail_sendername>Michael T.
Dean</B> <<A
href="mailto:mtdean@thirdcontact.com">mtdean@thirdcontact.com</A>>
wrote:</SPAN>
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style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid">On
06/06/2007 03:19 AM, Stefan van der Eijk wrote:<BR>> I'm also seeing that
my disk is filling up, but it's not due to the<BR>> mysql database. I
think it's due to recorded programs that have been<BR>> deleted, but the
mythbackend process is still holding onto them: <BR>><BR>> # lsof |
grep myth | grep deleted<BR>> mythbacke 23174
mythtv
18r REG 8,3<BR>>
2894512128 28181291<BR>>
/var/lib/mythtv/recordings/1028_20070604212500.mpg (deleted)<BR>><BR>>
Restarting the mythbackend process releases the diskspace.<BR><BR>So disable
slow deletes.<BR><BR>Delete files slowly<BR>Some filesystems use a lot of
resources when deleting large recording<BR>files. This option
makes Myth delete the file slowly on this backend to <BR>lessen the
impact.<BR><BR>in mythtv-setup (on each
backend).<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR>No, what he's describing, here, is
something else. On any Unix machine, if multiple processes have a file
open, and someone comes along and makes an unlink() call on that file, the
file won't actually be deleted until all processes close their file
handles. In this case, mythbackend has opened the file, for whatever
reason, and has unlinked the file, but isn't closing it's currently opened
file handle, and so the filesystem can't actually free the underlying disk
space. If this is true, it seems like a pretty serious bug. <BR><BR>To
the original poster, what version of mythbackend are you running? What's
your use case, here? Is there some sequence of operations which produces
this behaviour 100% of the time?<BR><BR>Brett.<BR>
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