[mythtv-users] Same 18GB reported used by LiveTV shown on backend for months

Dave Richardson mythtv at derdev.com
Fri Aug 27 01:30:10 UTC 2010


On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 12:10:34 -0400, "Michael T. Dean"
<mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 08/26/2010 07:52 AM, Dave Richardson wrote:
>> With nothing recording or being watched for whole chunks of days, my
myth
>> BE continues to report 18GB being used by LiveTV storage - and has
>> reported
>> the same 18GB for months...
>>
>> Total Disk Space:
>>
>>      * Total Space: 2,861,217 MB
>>      * Space Used: 494,349 MB
>>      * Space Free: 2,366,868 MB
>>      * Space Available After Auto-expire: 2,603,505 MB
>>            o Space Used by LiveTV: 18,740 MB
>>            o Space Used by Deleted Recordings: 0 MB
>>            o Space Used by Auto-expirable Recordings: 217,897 MB
>>
>>
>> I've had a few power outages and at least one hairy upgrade - all which
>> could have contributed to some unclean shutdowns of LiveTV.
>>
>> How do I track this down to clean this up?
> 
> I would bet that you have one or more log messages in your backend 
> log(s) saying that a file for <whatever> was not found, so the metadata 
> is being left/the show isn't being autoexpired.  Something like:
> 
> 2010-08-25 18:12:31.418 AutoExpire: CalcParams(): Max required Free 
> Space: 1.0 GB w/freq: 8 min
> 2010-08-25 18:12:31.426 ProgramInfo, Error: GetPlaybackURL:  
> '1061_20090320200000.mpg' should be local, but it can not be found.
> 
> Mike

grepping for "should be local, but it can not be found" in BE log yields
this 

<snip>
2010-08-11 18:41:39.933 ProgramInfo(109001_20100404183111.mpg), Error:
GetPlaybackURL: '109001_20100404183111.mpg' should be local, but it can not
be found.
2010-08-11 18:41:39.958 ProgramInfo(109001_20100404183407.mpg), Error:
GetPlaybackURL: '109001_20100404183407.mpg' should be local, but it can not
be found.
2010-08-11 18:41:39.983 ProgramInfo(109001_20100404185213.mpg), Error:
GetPlaybackURL: '109001_20100404185213.mpg' should be local, but it can not
be found.
2010-08-11 18:41:40.033 ProgramInfo(107001_20100404185702.mpg), Error:
GetPlaybackURL: '107001_20100404185702.mpg' should be local, but it can not
be found.
2010-08-11 18:41:40.058 ProgramInfo(109001_20100404200007.mpg), Error:
GetPlaybackURL: '109001_20100404200007.mpg' should be local, but it can not
be found.
2010-08-11 18:41:40.083 ProgramInfo(102001_20100501080825.mpg), Error:
GetPlaybackURL: '102001_20100501080825.mpg' should be local, but it can not
be found.


<spotlight on my ignorance> What can I do with this info?  I'm comfortable
in mysql to prune something out, but I'm clueless on the schema and how to
go prune this from the metadata.  TIA!!!







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