[mythtv-users] Long term stability?

[mythtv-users at fastdruid.co.uk]

Robert asked : 
> 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...

Yes (and the only thing that kills it is the pvr-350 locks up under
fast-forward when also recording sometimes).
Currently:

 11:55pm  up 7 days  2:35,  3 users,  load average: 0.93, 0.77, 0.42

Used fairly heavily used (min 2 hours watched per day, about 3-4hours
recorded per day)
Not had any recording problems (touches wood franticly) AFAIR with the
current setup.
Uptime is only 7days atm cos I rebooted it the other week to nick the dvd
drive. :-)

> If people do, perhaps a few could give their
> 
> 1) PVR hardware

PVR-350 (TV/X output)
Nova-T

> 2) Motherboard chipset

Pundit-R, dunno the chipset, 3GHz/800MHz P4 (OTT for what I'm using it for,
considering downgrading to run cooler)

> 3) Kernel version

 2.6.11-rc2-bk3-20050125153357-default (Kernel of the day, take a guess when
I built it ;-)  )

Under SuSE 9.1, that kernel was needed for the dvb support.

> 4) IVTV version.

0.3.8

> 5) Firmware version?

ivtv-fw-dec.bin - Version 2.02.023
ivtv-fw-enc.bin - Version 2.04.211

> 6) System Memory

512Mb

HTH

David