[mythtv-users] mythfilldatabase question..

[Greg]

On 03/12/2013 10:43 AM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 03/12/2013 10:19 AM, Greg wrote:
>> Lately mythfilldatabase runs at around 11 am.. It loads my system down
>> to a crawl and takes around 40 minutes to complete..  I disabled it in
>> mythtv-setup, and run it from a cron job,set for 5AM, that worked OK..
>>  How many times a day should mythfilldatabase run?
>> Is anyone else seeing these long run times?
>
> First step is to run optimize_mythdb.pl .
>
> Also, is this using --dd-grab-all ?  (Ideally, you will use that, but it
> can result in long run times for some users on some systems.)
>
> It should run once per day, but ideally will run when Schedules Direct
> tells you to run it next (i.e. with mythbackend running it, not being
> run through a cron job).
>
> Note that you may have some issues if mysql isn't properly configured
> (especially when running with MySQL data stored on a file system with
> barriers enabled).
>
> Mike
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Thanks Mike
  Yes, I have been running --dd-grab-all for quite sometime,but haven't 
run the  optimize_mythdb.pl script yet..
  I have only run MFD under a cron job for one day,just to see if I 
could get MFD to run only at night..

  All my recordings and video files are on EXT4 format drives with 
barriers disabled.. The database is on a ext3 formated disk..

Thanks for your time...