[mythtv-users] killing backend

[norman]

On Sun, 2007-10-21 at 13:20 +0100, Paul Harrison wrote:
> norman wrote:
> >>> < snip >

> I think some one said it might be the EIT scanner that is causing the
> problem. That should be easy to eliminate. First stop mythackend then
> run mythtv-setup. Go to '3. Video Sources' then select each video source
> in turn and on the settings page make sure 'Perform EIT Scan' is
> unchecked. The EIT scanner is only used on DVB type cards but it wont
> hurt to turn it off for all sources. I don't use the EIT scanner myself
> but I think that should be all that is required to prevent it running. I
> wouldn't have thought it would create so much disk activity but since I
> don't use it I could be wrong. Don't forget to restart the backend
> afterwards.

I noticed in '3' there is an item labelled 'Listings Grabber' which was
set to 'Transmitted guide only (FIT)'. I have changed this to 'No
grabber'. started mythbackend and now we wait.

Norman