<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 5:05 PM, chris biddick <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:c.biddickfam@gmail.com">c.biddickfam@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hi Folks;<br><br>I tried searching for any help here, but didnt find anything yet, so here goes:<br><br>I have been running a successful Mythbuntu BE/FE system, with a remote FE for a few weeks now.<br><br>The only problem I have not been able to sort out is this:<br>
The BE gets extremely slow after a few days. The symptoms include :<br>On the BE:<br>greyed screens & extremely long page loads in firefox, loading any program is extremely slow - local use of the BE becomes impossible.<br>
(The Local FE was only used during setup & troubleshooting, no longer used since I setup the remote FE)<br><br>On the remote FE:<br>It loads / runs fine, except when the BE exhibits those symptoms, then the FE will freeze when going to the Recorded Media list, and loading the System Status page is slow.<br>
<br>If I reboot the BE, everything is fine until a couple days later.<br>( can record 2 programs at same time and see no local slowdown immediately, although I can hear the data being dumped to the SATA drive...chunk...chunk...chunk)<br>
Commercial flagging & any transcoding is scheduled to only take place from Midnite to 5 am, since CommFlag gobbles up most of the cpu)<br><br>quick system rundown:<br>Ubuntu 9.1 with mythtv BE & FE installed later<br>
MB: Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H<br>CPU: AMD Phenom X2<br>Mem: 1GB<br>HD : OS on 320GB SATA<br>LiveTV: recorded to folder on same HD as OS<br>Recordings: recorded to separate 1TB HD<br>(this drive dedicated to Mythtv - sans LiveTV)<br>
[ I had to add this drive, since I filled the 320GB in about a week :-) ]<br>Tuner: Hauppauge pvr-500 (using both tuners, recording from cable-tv)<br> all recording are SD -<br><br>the remote FE is:<br>MB: Asus A7N266-VM<br>
Video: Nvidia 6200 based<br>Playback: SD only - still fiddling with best decoding/de-interlacing settings<br><br><br>Any help in pointing me to the right path would be greatly appreciated...<br>the WAF is good, except when she cannot use the BE locally!!<br>
<br>Thanks in advance, Chris<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The first thing I'd check is what the BE is doing. Check CPU usage (top), memory usage (cat /proc/meminfo), disk space usage (df). Check after a reboot, and check when it's being slow.</div>
<div><br></div><div>-Jerry</div></div>