[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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