[mythtv-users] System hangs occasionally -- more memory didn't solve the problem

[Dick Steffens]

On 11/12/2014 03:27 PM, Dick Steffens wrote:
> On 11/11/2014 05:08 PM, MythTV MythTV wrote:
>
>> If you are running the 64bit Linux and Mythtv binaries for MythTv 
>> then you might want to consider more memory.
>
> I found some memory locally. I added two 2GB sticks, so now I have 6GB 
> instead of 2. We'll see what difference that makes.
>
> Thanks to all for your memorable advice.
>

The additional memory did not resolve the problem. Here's what I have in 
top this evening:

top - 10:57:51 up 9 days, 19:55,  2 users,  load average: 1.02, 1.04, 1.05
Tasks: 167 total,   1 running, 166 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s): 50.4%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni, 49.6%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi, 0.0%si,  
0.0%st
Mem:   5950572k total,  2183428k used,  3767144k free,   127104k buffers
Swap:  2061308k total,    33428k used,  2027880k free,  1071056k cached
Write failed: Broken pipe
rsteff at ENU-1:~$ PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+ COMMAND
  2735 rsteff    20   0 3243m 418m  46m S  100  7.2  14156:06 
mythfrontend.re
  4795 rsteff    20   0 17336 1364  968 R    0  0.0  16:09.56 top
     1 root      20   0 24460 2148 1224 S    0  0.0   0:00.44 init


Is there anything in there that provides any clues on where to look next?

-- 
Regards,

Dick Steffens