[mythtv-users] Unusual activity from Myth whenever I log into

[Tom Lichti]

On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 1:34 PM, R KANNAN <rk111810 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I should mention. I don't actually log off from the system or shutdown but
> hibernate (suspend to disk). Whenever I come back from suspension there is
> some activity from mythbackend with both tuners being accessed. Again no
> scheduled recording at this time.
>
>
> On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 1:30 PM, R KANNAN <rk111810 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I  found that this is not the HDHomerun config GUI but mythbackend which
>> seems to to tun into both the tuners whenever I log into the system The
>> output fom 'top' shows:
>>
>> top - 13:24:49 up  5:09,  3 users,  load average: 1.69, 1.36, 0.75
>> Tasks: 140 total,   1 running, 138 sleeping,   0 stopped,   1 zombie
>> Cpu(s):  9.4%us, 10.3%sy,  0.2%ni, 61.4%id, 18.2%wa,  0.2%hi,  0.3%si,
>> 0.0%st
>> Mem:   1517228k total,   864740k used,   652488k free,    90748k buffers
>> Swap:  1545212k total,   105996k used,  1439216k free,   361776k cached
>>
>>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+
>> COMMAND
>>  2071 mythtv    20   0  388m  25m 9304 S   24  1.7  14:26.52
>> mythbackend
>>  1616 kannan    20   0  529m 213m  25m S    6 14.4  20:08.96
>> firefox
>>  1015 root      20   0 64836  12m 4940 S    6  0.8   4:40.22
>> Xorg
>>  1655 kannan    20   0  372m  49m  15m S    2  3.3  38:33.20
>> plugin-containe
>>  1531 kannan    20   0 73876 9720 8400 S    2  0.6   0:01.49
>> xfce4-terminal
>>  1193 kannan    20   0  6460 1964 1700 S    1  0.1   0:09.81
>> xscreensaver
>>
>> I don't have any scheduled recording at this time but I see a lot of disk
>> activity? This goes away wheneve I stop and start the backend or use HD
>> Homerun config to stop the tuners.
>>
>> Any ideas on how I can stop this?
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 11:28 PM, R KANNAN <rk111810 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I am using MythTV (0.24) with HD Homerun tuner on Mythubtunu 11.04. Myth
>>> seems to be working fine.But I found that one of  my scheduled recordings
>>> did not go through yesterday. The backend logs has the following lines
>>>
>>>
>>>    1. 2011-10-13 21:03:01.429 HDHRSH(1030CB19-1) Error: Set request
>>>    failed
>>>    2.                         eno: Resource temporarily unavailable (11)
>>>    3. 2011-10-13 21:03:02.640 HDHRSH(1030CB19-1) Error: Get request
>>>    failed
>>>    4.                         eno: Resource temporarily unavailable (11)
>>>    5. 2011-10-13 21:03:03.090 HDHRSH(1030CB19-1) Error: Set request
>>>    failed
>>>    6.                         eno: Resource temporarily unavailable (11)
>>>    7. 2011-10-13 21:03:03.545 HDHRSH(1030CB19-1) Error: Get request
>>>    failed
>>>    8.                         eno: Resource temporarily unavailable (11)
>>>
>>> First I thought some other client in the network was using the tuner. But
>>> after checking with others it turned out not to be the case.
>>>
>>> I found the lights on HDHR was coming on even hen myth was not recording
>>> or was on Live TV. I found that the HDHR config GUI was tuning into it
>>> automatically with a lot of disk activity. The network rate was showing
>>> nonzero value as Mbps.The only way to stop this was to hit the view button
>>> and close the VLC Media player. HDHR tune lights  then tuned off. Is it
>>> possible for this application to do this on its own? Is there a way to stop
>>> this short of un-installing this application? Will un-installing it affect
>>> MythTV?
>>>
>>>
Sounds like you have EIT scanning enabled. Check your tuner settings in
mythtv-setup, if you aren't using EIT for your listings, then you can safely
turn it off. I'm pretty sure it's not supposed to interfere with recordings
though.

Also, don't top post to this list, it's frowned upon.

Tom
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