[mythtv-users] Buffer file not rolling

[Joseph A. Caputo]

Mitko Haralanov wrote:

>On Fri, 7 Oct 2005 12:10:38 -0400
>"Joseph A. Caputo" <jcaputo1 at comcast.net> wrote:
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>>The ringbuffer will grow until it reaches the max size configured in the 
>>database.  Try setting your max ringbuffer size to a smaller value; 
>>it's in mythtv-setup, a setting called "Live TV buffer (GB)".
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>Well, my dedicated partition is 10GB and I set the live buffer to grow
>up to... well, 10GB. But there must be some number that is a bit off.
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>I lowered it to 9GB so I'll see how it goes...
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What filesystem are you using on that partition?  Some filesystems 
reserve a certain
percentage of space to be writable only by the root user, so on a 10 GB 
partition you
may only be able to write about 9 GB as a normal user.

-JAC