[mythtv-users] Skip hangs for some recordings
Leighton Brough
brough at baremetalsoft.com
Fri May 19 02:18:56 UTC 2006
Leighton Brough wrote:
> Michael Fox wrote:
>
>>> It's a combined front/backend system so the recordings are written
>>> locally. It's formatted as ext3, here's the relevant line from /etc/fstab:
>>>
>>> /dev/hda7 /mythtv ext3 defaults 0 2
>>>
>>>
>> Well thats not the issue then, you dont happen to have a failing drive
>> by chance. Whats the dmesg output show (hopefully no current errors
>> relating to ide drives at the bottom).
>>
>>
> The dmesg output is clean, and there's no evidence of disk failures. The
> partition is around 95% full, but I assume this pretty much normal for a
> mythtv box that's been in use for a while.
>
> Incidentally, the recordings where skips hangs seem to stay the same -
> the problem is repeatable.
>
I've just checked the frontend log, and it's filling up with messages like:
2006-05-15 23:30:07.778 Broadcasting free space avail
when the hang occurs.
Does anyone know what this means?
Leighton
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