[mythtv-users] mythbackend idle timeout does not start

[John Veness]

Leighton Brough wrote:
> There is another alternative here for getting ACPI sleep/wakeup to play 
> nicely with mythtv, instead of making your suspend script kill the 
> backend. I made some relatively trivial hacks to the backend source so 
> it can handle a system shutdown operation which doesn't cause the 
> backend process to shutdown as a side-effect. Without this, the backend 
> can't keep running after a resume as you would expect, without being 
> stopped and restarted. The net result of this change is that you don't 
> need to stop and restart the backend. My hack (svn diff) looks like this:
> 
[snip]
> 
> Basically this is a two line change which makes sure that 1) the idle 
> time is correct after resume, and 2) the backend doesn't get permanently 
> hung up thinking it's in the process of shutting down.
> 
> I'm using an oldish version of the 'fixes' 0.20 branch (details in the 
> cut'n'paste above), but If you're happy coding in C, then this should 
> point you in the right direction. In a perfect world I'd submit a patch, 
> but this would require some more though as the hack above may not 
> necessarily work for everyone, so it might need yet another config 
> option to be added.
> 
> This has been working well for me for a long time now and helps quite a 
> bit in making my combined front/back end suspend and resume quickly (< 
> 10sec) which is a very good thing for the WAF.
> 
> As far as I can see there should be no need to shutdown and restart mysql.
> 
> Leighton

That looks like a useful hack Leighton. It would be great (assuming it 
meets the approval of the main devs) if it was accepted as a patch. 
Anything which speeds up the resume time (as long as not at the expense 
of reliability and so on) is a Good Thing.

Cheers,

John

-- 
John Veness, MythTV user