[mythtv-users] Question about odd behavior

[Harry Orenstein]

I'm hoping someone can give me an idea of how to proceed investigating a 
problem I noticed recently just after running mythfrontend.

My hard drive seems as if it's being constantly accessed and the memory 
usage is way, way up.  This was after being in mythfrontend for about 2 
hours and recording a one hour program for the last hour of that time.  If I 
run mythfrontend again, just accessing the menus and then exit my free 
memory goes way up and the constant disk access ceases.  This has happened 
more than once, but I am not sure if it happens all the time.

My best guess is that either there is a problem with mythfrontend or 
mythbackend or the ivtv driver (I am using a PVR250).  I am running myth 
0.11 and a fairly recent ivtv driver (from a CVS-Latest of last week).  I 
was hoping someone could give me an idea of how to investigate this.

I have tried running top and found that mythbackend doesn't appear to be 
chewing up too many resources (though my knowledge of top and how to use it 
properly is limited).  I also haven't seen any obvious red-flags in 
mythbackend.log or syslog.

My config is listed below if that helps at all.  The problem doesn't appear 
to affect my ability to view live tv in myth or record, but it worries me 
that my resources are being "drained".  Any help or guidance as to how to 
proceed with an investigation would be greatly appreciated.

-- Harry O.


ASUS A7V8X-X mobo
Athlon XP2000+
512MB DDR
80GB WD
PNY nVidia MX440se
PVR-250
Mandrake 9.1

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