[mythtv] Myth Backend Monitor

[Adam Biskobing]

I will be very interested to see what you find on this, as I was having
the same problem with mythtranscode.  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org 
> [mailto:mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Christian Hack
> Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 1:09 AM
> To: 'Development of mythtv'
> Subject: RE: [mythtv] Myth Backend Monitor
> 
> 
> > 
> > Edward Allen wrote:
> > > I have written a small perl program that checks to see if
> > mythbackend is
> > > running properly once every minute.  It connects to the 
> backend and
> > > grabs a schedule.  If the connection times out or if the 
> > scheduler is
> > > blank, it assumes that something is wrong.  If it fails 3
> > times in a
> > > row, it restarts the backened.
> > > If there is interest in this script or MythTV.pm, please
> > let me know.
> > 
> > I nearly got motivated enough to write something similar 
> last night, 
> > after I found the backend had died after recording a show in the 
> > morning, and didn't record any of my shows at night.
> > (the actual recording of the morning show dissappeared too, 
> > after a heap of these errors:
> > 
> > [mpeg2video @ 0x80d9dd8]ac-tex damaged at 30 30
> > [mpeg2video @ 0x80d9dd8]concealing errors
> > [mpeg2video @ 0x80d9dd8]Warning MVs not available
> > [mpeg2video @ 0x80d9dd8]00 motion_type at 37 26
> > [mpeg2video @ 0x80d9dd8]concealing errors
> > 
> 
> Those sorts of errors are pretty common for me and generally 
> don't cause the backend or frontend to crash.
> 
> I do have one dodgy recording from last night that causes 
> mythtranscode to keep allocating memory until it runs out of 
> swap and also crashes the frontend on the preview window. I'm 
> compiling a debug version now to get the stack trace.
> 
> CH
> 
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