[mythtv-users] status polling every minute crashes backend?

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I've written a xap connector, that sends encoder status state and 
information in xap protocol onto the network. (xapconnectors project on 
sourceforge).

It works well, however after running for 10 hours or so, mythbackend 
crashes. I am assuming that the polling (doing an http get of 
http://server:6544/xml every minute) is crashing the backend, as mybackend 
has not crashed at all up to this point. (had been running for 100 days 
straight).

The crashes seem to be correllated with a recording finishing and job queue 
completion (commercial flagging). Has anyone seen this before? Any 
suggestions? Any better method to get real-time info on encoder status and 
changes?

thanks!