<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 10:26 PM, Andre <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mythtv-list@dinkum.org.uk">mythtv-list@dinkum.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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On 23 May 2011, at 16:17, Steven Adeff wrote:<br>
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> On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Mark Lord <<a href="mailto:mythtv@rtr.ca">mythtv@rtr.ca</a>> wrote:<br>
>> On 11-05-23 08:08 AM, Steven Adeff wrote:<br>
>>> Are any of the more involved Dev's other than JYA paying attention to<br>
>>> this? (this is a callout for them to answer).<br>
>>><br>
>>> It's looking like this may be a major issue that many users, with<br>
>>> varying levels of hardware, are experiencing. I think it may be time<br>
>>> to create a ticket for this issue, but it would be nice to have a dev<br>
>>> that can work with us in figuring out what's going on, and how exactly<br>
>>> to create a ticket that will lead to some debugging help from the<br>
>>> dev's for the users experiencing the problem to use to troubleshoot.<br>
>>><br>
>>> the other end of all this is that it may be an issue that some of the<br>
>>> further tweaking that's been done for the next release has resolved<br>
>>> already. I'm wondering if anyone running off the latest git is<br>
>>> experiencing?<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> I take it this is only (or is it primarily?) happening in trunk,<br>
>> and not in 0.24-fixes? I only run the latter here (no pauses).<br>
>><br>
>> What I would look for in the code, are sync(), fsync(),<br>
>> and fdatasync() calls. Those generally force writes to happen<br>
>> and pause a lot of stuff to wait for them to complete in real-time.<br>
>><br>
>> Which can lead to tiny pauses and glitches elsewhere.<br>
>><br>
>> So just as a trial, perhaps grep through the code looking for those,<br>
>> and temporarily remove them, to see if the problem then goes away.<br>
>> That should prove/disprove this theory.<br>
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> this is happening in 0.24-fixes for pretty much everyone, and looks to<br>
> have started with 0.24 as people who changed no hardware and upgraded<br>
> to 0.24 started experiencing the issue. I don't know if anyone using<br>
> trunk is having the issue. it also does not look like everyone has the<br>
> issue, and the severity varies as well. It also looks like it is also<br>
> only an issue with HD content.<br>
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</div></div>I see the same problem with SD too, well I did, I haven't watched any SD for months :-)<br>
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Andre<br>
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> I think I will create a wiki page to keep track of each persons<br>
> experience. A table with columns for specific issue notes, etc.<br>
><br>
> I think I may also need to temporarily upgrade to trunk to see if the<br>
> issue goes away. Hopefully trunk is not severely buggy...<br>
><br>
> --<br>
> Steve<br>
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<br></div></div></blockquote><div>I am seeing it with HD and SD content. I spend a lot of time using "Watch Videos" and have configured the system to only use storage groups and I see it here as well. </div></div>
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