<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 9:19 PM, Michael Watson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michael@thewatsonfamily.id.au" target="_blank">michael@thewatsonfamily.id.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On 25/02/2013 8:36 PM, John Veness wrote:<br>
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On 24/02/2013 19:47, Allen Edwards wrote:<br>
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I am running 0.21 and following the advice of if it ain't broke, don't<br>
fix it. But I have a very small "broke" I would like to fix. This<br>
problem started probably about a year ago. I had many years with no<br>
issues at all. Not always, but often when I start a program I get a<br>
long delay and then back to the menu and I have to start the show again,<br>
which then starts instantly. Also, and more annoying, if I stop a show<br>
half way through and restart it, it often does the same thing and I lose<br>
my break point so have to manually skip to where I left off.<br>
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I had a similar problem to that a few years ago, and if I remember correctly I found that degragmenting my drives helped. I'm not sure if it was defragmenting the video storage drive or the database drive that particularly helped.<br>
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I'm not sure even a severely fragmented drive would cause this sort of delay.<br>
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How much memory does the system have? How much swap space is the system using?<br>
What sort of load is the system under when you start to watch a program?<br>
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I would start by opening a terminal window (or ssh into it from another machine), start 'top' and watch what happens to the system load (and what process's are creating that load) when you start a program.<br>
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Is there anything getting logged by syslog that might shed any light. "cat /var/log/messages | grep sda" might shed some light on the problem. (If its a drive starting to turn up its toes)<br>
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Have you looked if the myth logs show any hints? (backend and frontend logs)<br>
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Maybe your CPU fan is just clogged with dust, so CPU is not getting cooled properly, causing the system to run slow.<br>
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Many things to look at before you upgrade, and find yourself with the same problem (or worse)<br>
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Regards<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
Michael</font></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote><div>CPU fan cleaned not long ago, and the system was shutting down before I cleaned it so it really can be a problem.</div><div><br></div>
<div>But back to the problem, it isn't delay or slow speed, it is bad behavior. The time is clearly being used by myth doing something it should not be doing. To repeat. I can restart a show where I have the option of "play" or "play from" and hit "play from" and the thing goes and does whatever it is doing and goes back to the menu by itself and "play from" is no longer an option. I then have to hit play and fast forward to where I had left off. Myth has done something it should not have done, it isn't that it is slow. It has gone and done a bunch of stuff and lost its placemark in the process.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Allen</div></div><br>