[mythtv-users] Q to community: is SMP stable for You people ?

Michelle Dupuis support at ocg.ca
Sun Oct 28 18:24:01 UTC 2007


I have the same problem on single core (different ASUS mobo).

I usually telnet in, then "telinit 3; telinit 5" and everything is running
again.

This is a BE & FE combo, and BE keeps running even when FE freezes.

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Warpme
> Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2007 1:26 PM
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> Subject: [mythtv-users] Q to community: is SMP stable for You people ?
> 
> Hi *
> 
> I'm wonder about experience of all SMP minimyth users: do You 
> have stable playing of LiveTV/recorded TV under SMP configurations ?
> I'm testing minimyth 0.20.2.-31b12 (SMP kernel 2.6.23.1 as I 
> remember) on ASUS M2NPV-VM with AMD X2 4400 and sometimes 
> playing LiveTV or recorded TV just freezes.
> System is alive as I can remotely enter via WebFS or send HW 
> to S3 sleep and successfully resume (with blank screen as 
> myth process is still hanging). It looks like kind of threads 
> races between cores or and locking deadlock somewhere in mythtv.
> 



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