full live-tv buffer issue (formerly [mythtv] Upcoming 0.18 release)

[Zach]

I encountered it as well, today.
Got home from work and backend was dead.  

/cache (/dev/hda2) is 13GB
Myth is set to use up to 12 GB live tv buffer.
df said /cache was at 100% usage.
removed ringbuffer file. and started backend, and all was good again.
Running knoppmyth R5A12, unified BE/FE, 7NIF2, pvr 250, 512 MB ram
will post logs, configuration files, etc if it's useful.  

Zach

> Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 21:09:27 +0200
> From: Steven <mythmail at richardstraat.homedns.org>
> Subject: Re: [mythtv] Upcoming 0.18 release
> To: Development of mythtv <mythtv-dev at mythtv.org>
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> Is there anything else that a non-programmer can do to help resolve the
> craches with the full live-tv buffer? There was another tread on this
> issue on the user list last week. I know you (Isaac) don't have the
> problem on your machine but apparently quite a few do. I have personally
> seen this on 3 different backend machines (one with a PVR150, a 250 and
> one with a PVR350, so all ivtv cards). Would it be usefull to provide
> another backtrace on this?
> Can a few other people on this list try to lower the size of their live
> tv buffer and see if live-tv keeps working when it reaches max size and
> report back?
> 
> If I remember correctly the problem first appeared a few days before
> the .17 release around the same time there where playback problems at
> the end of a recording. That problem was fixed before the .17 release
> but i was thinking it might be related...
> 
> Steven
> 
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