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

[Anthony Giggins]

On 23 November 2014 at 11:49, Dick Steffens <dick at dicksteffens.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>
> looks like mythfrontend process is using 100% CPU time, although the
system shows 49% idle (I'm guessing this is a dual core system?)

I'd suggest looking at the frontend log and maybe extending the logging
also so other details of your system, ie. CPU, video card, playback
profiles,filesystem layout and OS?

Cheers,

Anthony
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