[mythtv-users] Frontend crash after 2-3 hours of live tv - Any suggestions?

Christian Husemann - RSD EMEA Storage Engineer Christian.Husemann at Sun.COM
Tue Mar 21 15:49:43 UTC 2006



Christian Husemann - RSD EMEA Storage Engineer wrote:
> 
> William wrote:
>> I am running 0.19 release-fixes compiled on a FC2 system. After watching
>> live tv for a while the frontend will just freeze. I have not been able to
>> figure out what to look for on this issue. When the system fails, the hard
>> drive light will run solid on  for a good 3-4 minutes. It almost looks like
>> it may be updateing the allocation tables or trying to fix an error. The
>> file system is a pair of ide drives in a LVM formatted with XFS. I dont
>> think its an issue with file size although the live tv files are usually
>> ~4GB in size when things fail. Any suggestions on what to check?
>>
>> TIA,
>> Bill
>>
>>
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> 
> Bill,
> 
> what about mythbackend.log, messages ....? Also imho your livetv file 
> should be a ringbuffer and should grow to that size.
> 
> Just my 2c.
> 
> Christian
> 
> 

Small correction s:and should:and should not:

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