[mythtv-users] 0.27: Stalls and other niggles - fixed

[John]

On 22/05/14 19:25, John wrote:
> On 22/05/14 07:52, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
>> On 19 January 2014 03:16, Mike Thomas <mt3 at pfw.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> The point I make is MythTV 0.22 works with binlogging and barriers on
>>> 'consumer-grade' hardware without any trouble whereas MythTV 0.27
>>> doesn't. Feel free to stick with barrier=0 and no binlogging if you
>>> want, but the attached patch lets me have my cake and eat it too. It
>>> should apply cleanly against 0.27.
>> Thanks for the patch.
>>
>> I've applied it...
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> Jean-Yves,
>
> Mikes patch reduces the blocking probability significantly. Added to 
> your change to cache the getframeswritten value, it probably more than 
> enough  to make the dropped frames invisible. However the root cause 
> of the stalls was the blocking of getframeswritten. I feel that 
> continually calling getframeswritten to autoskip in progress 
> recordings is a waste of time in most cases :-)
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Oops, didn't see you had already picked that change up !

Thank you