[mythtv-users] Scheduled recording causing frontend lockup

Blammo[doh] blammo at dohboys.com
Fri Sep 10 23:57:50 EDT 2004


No, but thanks for offering a suggestion.

/myth is on a 160G IDE drive alll by itself for the backend, which is
mounted on the frontend




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Donavan Stanley" <GeckoFiend at gmail.com>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 2:09 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Scheduled recording causing frontend lockup


> Do you use LVM?  I was able to pin the blame on this on my LVM volume.
>  It started appearing for me once my multi-disk system filled beyond
> the capactiy of the first disk.  The following patch should fix it, at
> the expense of some extra delay in swtiching over from watching TV to
> watching the recording.  I've not had time to figure out how to
> properly fix my LVM setup.
>
> Begin stupid_lvm_hack.patch
> ----
> Index: RingBuffer.cpp
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /var/lib/mythcvs/mythtv/libs/libmythtv/RingBuffer.cpp,v
> retrieving revision 1.103
> diff -u -r1.103 RingBuffer.cpp
> --- RingBuffer.cpp 26 Aug 2004 23:57:55 -0000 1.103
> +++ RingBuffer.cpp 10 Sep 2004 21:03:04 -0000
> @@ -374,7 +374,12 @@
>              is_local = true;
>
>          if (is_local)
> +        {
> +            fd2 = open(filename.ascii(),
O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE|O_STREAMING);
> +            close(fd2);
> +            sleep(1);
>              fd2 = open(filename.ascii(),
O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE|O_STREAMING);
> +        }
>          else
>              remotefile = new RemoteFile(filename);
>
> -- 
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>
>


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