[mythtv-users] Long term stability?

[Josh Burks]

On 11/8/05, Robert Denier <denier at umr.edu> wrote:
> Does anyone have a backend that runs for a week or more under reasonably
> heavy use?  By run, I mean with no manual intervention or cron jobs
> resetting things/etc.  I still have to occasionally do
> a /etc/init.d/mythbackend restart although I'm not quite sure why...
>
> If people do, perhaps a few could give their
>
> 1) PVR hardware
> 2) Motherboard chipset
> 3) Kernel version
> 4) IVTV version.
> 5) Firmware version?
> 6) System Memory
>
> and, well, anything else they think relevant to stability.
>

Here's all my relevent info. I believe the mobo is a MSI MicroATX with
no AGP slot (the model number escapes me, but it's 2.5 years old at
least). I'm running 512 MB of memory.

I install using Jarod's guide. My uptime would be over 100 days if it
weren't for a power outage. So far this has been the most stable build
I've had since I've been using Myth.

[joshb at hydrogen ~]$ cat /etc/issue
Fedora Core release 3 (Heidelberg)
Kernel \r on an \m

[joshb at hydrogen ~]$ uname -r
2.6.10-1.760_FC3

[joshb at hydrogen ~]$ /sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM
Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp.
82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2
EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 82)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) LPC
Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus
Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16
(CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
01:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)

[joshb at hydrogen ~]$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 15
model           : 1
model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.70GHz
stepping        : 2
cpu MHz         : 1700.762
cache size      : 256 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 2
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca
cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm
bogomips        : 3366.91

[joshb at hydrogen ~]$ uptime
 16:58:57 up 44 days, 23:08,  4 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

[joshb at hydrogen ~]$ rpm -qa | grep ivtv
perl-Video-ivtv-0.13-6.rhfc3.at
ivtv-0.1.10-49.2_pre2_ck100zz.rhfc3.at
ivtv-firmware-1.8a-4.at
ivtv-firmware-dec-2.02.023-4.at
ivtv-kmdl-2.6.10-1.760_FC3-0.1.10-49.2_pre2_ck100zz.rhfc3.at
ivtv-firmware-enc-2.04.024-4.at

[joshb at hydrogen ~]$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        508076     370724     137352          0      26120     126184
-/+ buffers/cache:     218420     289656
Swap:      1052216        240    1051976



> Actually, I wonder if there is a database anywhere of such things, or if
> such a thing would be useful.  If nothing else, this might give someone
> a bit of guidance when putting together a system.
>

http://pvrhw.goldfish.org/tiki-pvrhwdb.php

HTH,

Josh