[mythtv-users] Schedules Direct TBA Listings

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Gary,

Thursday, July 17, 2014, 9:23:26 PM, you wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 6:13 PM, Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com> wrote:
> ....
>> With regards to " dd--grab-all being the default setting, couldn't the
>> individual system upon sensing it's own low power, then revert to previous
>> default? Forgive my newbie ignorance, but if possible this seems a simpler
>> work around.

> While such software is not impossible, and I am not writing the
> code, but it seems to me that determining "underpowered" is
> actually rather hard to accurately determine.  It is not simply a
> slow CPU, "underpowered" can be many factors.  While one
> could try a download, and set itself to degrade in future downloads
> if it fails (which, as I recall, could leave the system with no
> scheduling info at all if it fails in certain steps), a single failure
> is not sufficient (because it could be due to an Internet outage,
> or an overloaded link due to someone running bittorrent, or /tmp
> filling up because someone downloaded the 400TB copy of the
> unedited raw Hobbit footage, or /var filling up due to an infinite
> number of log entries from ssh attempts to root, or the (shared)
> database being overloaded by doing a star join against 100 tables,
> or ....)  And then, if someone upgraded their system (or solved
> the other issues), one would probably want it to change to
> --dd-grab-all automagically.  So you have to add some state, and
> some dynamic testing, and some hysteresis to insure that you do
> not flip from --dd-grab-all to --dd-grab-old-and-slow-and-obsolete too
> quickly.  And, btw, you would not want to be overloading SD doing
> a test every hour just to be sure.  All in all, probably more work
> than simply doing the right thing and use the already existing
> loading capability as Michael suggested.  But, ultimately, it would
> be up to the devs to consider your code contribution for
> underpowered system determination and fallback, and whether
> it meets their expectations for the principal of least astonishment.
> _______________________________________________

I can state I have never seen it working in mythweb. If I have a show
marked as previously recorded. I run 027.1. through Gentoo



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