[mythtv-users] Short recordings (SOLVED)

[Jason Ramey]

Is this a 2.6 kernel you are referring to? I have this same problem and
looked in /proc/sys/vm/ but dirty_writeback_centisecs did not exist. Using
debian unstable & ivtv. Thanks.

Jason
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kyle Rose" <krose+mythtv at krose.org>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 2:16 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Short recordings (SOLVED)


> Lance Tost <ltost at pobox.com> writes:
>
> > I think I finally solved the issue I have with mythtv hanging and
> > resulting in short recordings (and missed recordings).  It's not a
mythtv
> > problem but I know others have had the same problem so this may help
> > someone out.
>
> I had a similar problem long ago, and fixed it (and some corruption
> issues surrounding old ivtv driver freezes) by doing
>
> echo 100 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs
>
> which tells the machine to flush the writeback cache every second.
> The problem for me was that the default flush interval was so long
> that it built up too much data resulting in a flush hogging the PCI
> bus for enough time that myth would get into an unrecoverable state
> viz-a-viz the ivtv driver, and the recording would stop.
>
> I still use ReiserFS, and with recent ivtv drivers from Chris Kennedy
> have had no problems.
>
> Cheers,
> Kyle
>
>


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