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255); display: inline !important; float: none;">And, TTBOMK,
this--coupled with a system misconfiguration--is generally<span
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial,
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255); display: inline !important; float: none;">how/why you end
up with multiple instances of mythlogserver, and when<span
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial,
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instances, you'll always get high CPU usage.<span
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial,
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255); display: inline !important; float: none;">My understanding
is that on a distro where you run different MythTV<span
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small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight:
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auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial,
Helvetica; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant:
normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal;
line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start;
text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
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255); display: inline !important; float: none;">processes as
different users, eventually, a user without proper write<span
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rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size:
small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight:
normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans:
auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
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background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial,
Helvetica; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant:
normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal;
line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start;
text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255); display: inline !important; float: none;">permissions on
one or more of the directories where mythlogserver<span
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rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size:
small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight:
normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans:
auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;
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background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial,
Helvetica; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant:
normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal;
line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start;
text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
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255); display: inline !important; float: none;">attempts to
write log files will start mythlogserver. Then, it<span
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rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size:
small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight:
normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans:
auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;
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background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial,
Helvetica; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant:
normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal;
line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start;
text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
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255); display: inline !important; float: none;">basically
"breaks" (or locks or ...), and eventually some other process<span
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small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight:
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auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial,
Helvetica; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant:
normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal;
line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start;
text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255); display: inline !important; float: none;">starts another
copy (and the cycle may repeat). You can either fix your<span
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial,
Helvetica; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant:
normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal;
line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start;
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widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
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255); display: inline !important; float: none;">file system
permissions so that all users running all MythTV processes<span
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small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight:
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auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial,
Helvetica; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant:
normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal;
line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start;
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widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
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255); display: inline !important; float: none;">have write
permission on all directories where you're logging, or use<span
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial,
Helvetica; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant:
normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal;
line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start;
text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
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255); display: inline !important; float: none;">the same system
user to run all MythTV processes, or use syslog logging.<span
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Helvetica; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant:
normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal;
line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start;
text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
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Helvetica; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant:
normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal;
line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start;
text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
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255); display: inline !important; float: none;">Mike</span> </blockquote>
This is the first time I've seen this mentioned as a possible cause.
I run Mythbackend as my regular user, due to real difficulties I had
after a fresh install to import my old mysql database and get the
tuners to work (see
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