[mythtv-users] backend activity

norman norman at littletank.org
Thu Oct 18 17:51:18 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 10:05 -0700, Brad DerManouelian wrote:
> On Oct 18, 2007, at 9:30 AM, norman wrote:
> 
> > For the last few days my hd has a frenzied session, lasting about 5
> > minutes and repeating at half hourly intervals. I have traced this
> > activity to Mythtv backend. Can someone please suggest why this should
> > be and what I can do to try to stop it?
> >
> > Norman
> 
> Are you doing EIT scanning? Maybe every 30 minutes? I would check  
> lsof to see what files are being accessed during those times.

I opened a terminal and typed lsof. All I got was a long list and each
item seemed to start with firefox -b.

Norman



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