[mythtv-users] multiple mythtranscode processes on Ubuntu 8.04

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Oct 21, 2008, at 11:06 AM, Micah Wedemeyer wrote:

> I recently upgraded my mythbackend machine to Hardy Heron, and it's
> started misbehaving.  As best I can tell, it starts spinning up  
> multiple
> identical mythtranscode processes that eat up all the CPU and the
> backend eventually just stops responding to the frontend.
>
> I've got it set to only run 1 job at a time, but that seems to have no
> effect.
>
> Anyone have any ideas?

This will happen if you set your backend to automatically respawn  
after crashing and it keeps crashing on you. You'll get a new  
mythtranscode process every time it starts up again. Find out if  
you're crashing and stop that from happening. :)