[mythtv-users] mythbackend crashes

[nate s]

AFAIR, the XFS problems are fixed in the latest 2.6.9+ kernels.  

Anyways, I've been running for weeks with a 2.6.9 and my XFS partition
90% full (need bigger hard drive...) and it's held up just fine.

-Nate


On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 11:21:43 -0600, Buchanan, Paul (West)
<paul.buchanan at thomson.com> wrote:
> On Monday, November 22, 2004 8:40 PM, glen martin wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> > Ext3 is a bad idea.  It handles large deletes *very* poorly (i.e.
> > you'll get even more IOBOUND errors when you delete large files while
> > recording
> > on Ext3.)  Try JFS instead.  Works just as well as XFS without the 90%
> > full headaches.  JFS doesn't have all the fancy shrink/grow options
> > like XFS does though...
> >
> > I've got an 850MHz PIII running LVM over software RAID5 on four 250GB
> > SATA drives with three PVR-250's.  I don't have any IOBOUND problems
> > using FC2 with Axel's latest Myth RPM's and ivtv-0.2.0-55_rc2j, even
> > when running all 3 cards and moving two simultaneous 4GB files locally
> > across partitions.  In my testing, once I started a third
> > simulataneous large file, it started to block, but that stress test
> > was beyond
> > anything I've encountered in real life.  FWIW - With 100zz I did get
> > IOBOUND errors, and the "stealing a buffer" message.  The buffering
> > between those two versions is significantly different, and the 2.0rc2
> > version is much better.  Oddly enough, with 100zz my backend wouldn't
> > die immediately, and live TV usually still worked, but new recordings
> > wouldn't start.  Restarting the backend would fix it, but it would
> > always happen again in a day or two.  Upgrading to ivtv-0.2.0-55_rc2j
> > fixed it for me.
> >
> 
> I have been dreading switiching my filesystem to anything else, as I have no way of backing up my current set of recordings.  Loosing all of them is less than ideal.  JFS does sound like the next one to try though, as I have heard from others that ReiserFS isn't any better than XFS is with 90% full partions.
> 
> If a new ivit version will fix it, that would be my best solition.  I will give ivtv-0.2.0-55_rc2j a try and report back.  Thanks for the tip!
> 
> Paul
> 
> 
> 
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