<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 5:17 PM, Michael T. Dean <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mtdean@thirdcontact.com" target="_blank">mtdean@thirdcontact.com</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 03/11/2013 05:00 PM, Joseph Fry wrote:<br>
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Mike, CPU is certainly the greatest resource used by comflagging itself... but there is an IO component to it... and if the IO is already nearly saturated with concurrent recordings and playback... comflagging may contribute to playback/recording issues.<br>
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Preferring comflagging on current recordings over a FIFO queue achieves 2 advantages:<br>
1. reduction in IO due to caching<br>
2. higher priority recordings can be comflagged before lower priority, completed recordings.<br>
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For example, lets say that one night I record six 1 hour shows, 2 at a time for 3 hours. Assume I only have one comflag job defined and my CPU is just barely fast enough to run realtime. In this case, when my favorite show airs in the 3rd hour of recordings, there will be 2 hours of shows left in the queue before it will get flagged.<br>
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This happens to me all the time... there are only a few shows that I want to watch right away... mostly so friends/coworkers don't spoil them for me the next day, and they are almost never transcoded when I watch them because the queue is full of stuff that recorded earlier in the evening.<br>
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See the link I quoted. It says that there's work being done...<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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Mike<br></div></div></blockquote></div><br>In 0.25+, there was a problem with mythcommflag frequently dying after hitting the EOF, which it's going to do all the time if it's trying to commflag while recording. I believe this was attributed to a race condition (one of about 5 new annoying little bugs in 0.25+ that were attributed to race conditions). Do you know if that ever got fixed?<br>
<br>Karl<br>