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

[Howard Cokl]

--- Jens Baumeister <jens.baumeister at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 06:19:55 -0800 (PST), Howard
> Cokl
> <hojoloco at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > > 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.
> 
> > Is this happening when watching live TV?  Is your
> > ringbuffer on the same partition?  What is the
> > ringbuffer size?
> 
> I'm not in front of my mythbox right now, so I can't
> tell the size,
> but it is on the same partition and it might very
> well be around 2 GB.
> 
> I hardly ever use live TV mode, though. I think, it
> happened at least
> once when I hadn't watched any live TV since the
> last reboot. Does
> myth still reserve space for the ringbuffer  in that
> case? If so, that
> might be the culprit.
> 
> Thanks for the quick reply.
> 
> Jens
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>From what I can tell on my box myth doesn't reserve
space for the ringbuffer and doesn't use it when
watching recordings.  What kind of filesystem?  Is
mythbackend using all of the cycles is is it I/O wait?