[mythtv-users] restricting mythpreviewgen?
phipps-hutton at sky.com
phipps-hutton at sky.com
Wed Jan 23 10:41:24 UTC 2013
Quoting Alex Williamson <alex.l.williamson at gmail.com>:
> Hi all,
>
> I've setup a very cpu and memory constrained slave backend solely for
> the purpose of connecting an hdpvr to the master backend. I'm running
> 0.25+fixes and it appears to be working well so far, until I hit the
> recorded programs page in mythweb. At that point something decides
> it's a good mythpreviewgen target and farms out a few jobs to it. Not
> only do these jobs take a long time to complete on this slow box, but
> they risk interfering with the backend process and causing an oom on
> the slave. I've already configured the slave to not run any metadata,
> commercial detection, transcode, or user jobs. How can I also block
> mythpreviewgen jobs? Eventually I expect to setup a slave backend
> virtual machine on my desktop who's only job is to run those compute
> intensive tasks and would like to direct all jobs, including
> mythpreviewgen to it. Is this possible? Thanks,
>
> Alex
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Try 'rm /usr/bin/mythpreviewgen'. Previews look pretty but I can live
without them.
Cheers,
Tim.
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