[mythtv-users] myth hangs + locks whole system [RAM OK]

[Joseph Fry]

On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 3:31 PM, Ross Boylan
<rossboylan at stanfordalumni.org>wrote:

> I attempted to ssh in, but did not get a connection until the system got
> itself unstuck. (for both hangs).


Ahh... so the system isn't truely hung... it eventually recovers.

There was a lot of discussion recently regarding the leap-second bug
causing extremely high CPU utilization.  Doubt that's it, but it's possible
I suppose.

Either way, something is thrashing your system... and swapping is a
likely candidate.

Try copying some files around and see what kind of impact it has on the
CPU... perhaps your not using DMA or something silly like that.

I wouldn't think so, but perhaps there is some overhead associated with
using the chroot?

Anyway, nothing that mythtv is doing should push your system load to 60!  I
suspect you had some major iowait going on.
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