[mythtv] RFE: Allowing backend to trigger S3 sleep while frontend is connected and idle

Dan Wilga mythtv-dev2 at dwilga-linux1.amherst.edu
Mon Sep 26 20:48:31 UTC 2011


On 9/26/11 4:32 PM, Kenni Lund wrote:
> 2011/9/26 Warpme<warpme at o2.pl>:
>
>> Hi,
>> I'm glad S3 aspect pops-up as I want to add another aspect relevant to S3:
>> sleep-resume on fe side.
>> Currently, basing on BE logs, I get impression BE threats frontend sent to
>> S3 as fe which lost connection to BE.
>> I'm not verified it, but in past, long enough sleep period caused also lost
>> of comm. mechanism on BE->FE direction.
>>
> A couple of months ago I finally got S3 configured on my main
> frontend. I experienced the same thing - when waking up the frontend
> after a few hours of the frontend being suspended, the connection
> between the frontend and the backend was borked somehow - not enough
> for it to give an error message in the frontend, but enough to give
> funny behaviour in the frontend (missing recordings, etc). I didn't
> have time to look into it (or even create a ticket or check for old
> tickets) at that time, so a quick workaround to keep a high WAF, was
> to restart the frontend every time the system was resumed. I haven't
> had time to look any further into it yet, but the problem was
> consistent on my 0.24-fixes system (up to date as of one month ago).
>
Ditto. If somebody were to figure out the reason for this and provide a 
patch, I would be an eager tester. I currently use this feature on three 
different frontends, and having to restart MFE every time introduces 
enough of a delay to be distracting.

-- 
Dan Wilga                                                        "Ook."


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