[mythtv-users] How to disable AutoExpire

[michael hupp]

Very cool! Guess I should have looked at main.cpp first, eh? Or even
"mythbackend --help". Lots of things I don't need that I can disable at the
command line!

Thanks again.

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 7:14 AM, michael hupp <mh.lightning9 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Well, I wouldn't say I am absolutely sure I know what I am doing...at
> least, not yet. I know what I am doing in the sense that I am a CS with many
> years of experience but last night was the first time I ever looked at the
> mythbackend code.
>
> I started poking around and commented out the ExpireLiveTV call. That
> helped a lot. I also was able to increase my expire freq to 720 minutes but
> there are still UpdateDontExpireSet() calls going on much more frequently.
> Coincidentally, while in the shower this morning, I was thinking I would
> start looking through the code to see if there is a switch to disable the
> AutoExire object all together and then saw your reply.
>
> As for the rest of you cautions...understood. This is definitely not a
> production environment and I am absolutely sure I know I don't have a
> capture card in my Kurobox. Therefore, I can't possibly record anything so I
> couldn't possibly need to ever expire anything. I will try the
> --noautoexpire switch and let you know if I get any null pointer exceptions.
>
> Thanks!
> Michael
>
>
> On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 4:42 AM, Chris Pinkham <cpinkham at bc2va.org> wrote:
>
>> * On Thu May 28, 2009 at 06:11:14PM -0700, michael hupp wrote:
>> > Anyhoo, can anybody out there please tell me how I can disable (or at
>> least
>> > back off the frequency of) the AutoExpire process?
>>
>> If you're absolutely sure you know what you're doing, then you can
>> run mythbackend with the "--noautoexpire" option and the AutoExpire
>> thread will not be started when mythbackend starts.  I use this option
>> on my dev machine all the time and haven't seen any adverse affects,
>> but it has not been tested long-term in a production environment.  Most
>> places should be checking "if (expirer)" before trying to talk to the
>> AutoExpirer, but there may be some places that slipped by.
>>
>> --
>> Chris
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