[mythtv-users] Mythbackend CPU usage when running low on diskspace

Howard Cokl hojoloco at yahoo.com
Tue Mar 22 14:19:55 UTC 2005


--- Jens Baumeister <jens.baumeister at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a DVB-T mythbox using 0.16, though I'm
> planning to upgrade to
> 0.17 in a few weeks - currently I'm too busy and
> also a bit reluctant
> to touch a system that's running smooth.
> 
> There's just one thing that's bothering me: Every
> time I run low on HD
> space on my video partition ( < 4 GB left ),
> mythbackend will start
> eating up a lot of CPU resources. (As in: 0% idle,
> jerky video
> playback, dropped frames while recording) This stops
> as soon as I free
> up some more space.
> 
> It can't be related commercial flagging as I don't
> have that turned
> on. It shouldn't be auto-expiry as that's set to
> kick in at <2 GB
> left.
> 
> Does anyone have any idea what mythbackend is doing
> there?
> 
> Jens
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Is this happening when watching live TV?  Is your
ringbuffer on the same partition?  What is the
ringbuffer size?  


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