[mythtv-users] Have to start shows twice -- database problem???
Michael Watson
michael at thewatsonfamily.id.au
Thu Feb 28 14:10:32 UTC 2013
On 26/02/2013 4:44 PM, Allen Edwards wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 9:19 PM, Michael Watson
> <michael at thewatsonfamily.id.au <mailto:michael at thewatsonfamily.id.au>>
> wrote:
>
> On 25/02/2013 8:36 PM, John Veness wrote:
>
> On 24/02/2013 19:47, Allen Edwards wrote:
>
> I am running 0.21 and following the advice of if it ain't
> broke, don't
> fix it. But I have a very small "broke" I would like to
> fix. This
> problem started probably about a year ago. I had many
> years with no
> issues at all. Not always, but often when I start a
> program I get a
> long delay and then back to the menu and I have to start
> the show again,
> which then starts instantly. Also, and more annoying, if
> I stop a show
> half way through and restart it, it often does the same
> thing and I lose
> my break point so have to manually skip to where I left off.
>
>
> I had a similar problem to that a few years ago, and if I
> remember correctly I found that degragmenting my drives
> helped. I'm not sure if it was defragmenting the video storage
> drive or the database drive that particularly helped.
>
> I'm not sure even a severely fragmented drive would cause this
> sort of delay.
>
> How much memory does the system have? How much swap space is the
> system using?
> What sort of load is the system under when you start to watch a
> program?
>
> I would start by opening a terminal window (or ssh into it from
> another machine), start 'top' and watch what happens to the system
> load (and what process's are creating that load) when you start a
> program.
>
> Is there anything getting logged by syslog that might shed any
> light. "cat /var/log/messages | grep sda" might shed some light
> on the problem. (If its a drive starting to turn up its toes)
>
> Have you looked if the myth logs show any hints? (backend and
> frontend logs)
>
> Maybe your CPU fan is just clogged with dust, so CPU is not
> getting cooled properly, causing the system to run slow.
>
> Many things to look at before you upgrade, and find yourself with
> the same problem (or worse)
>
>
> Regards
> Michael
>
> CPU fan cleaned not long ago, and the system was shutting down before
> I cleaned it so it really can be a problem.
>
> But back to the problem, it isn't delay or slow speed, it is bad
> behavior. The time is clearly being used by myth doing something it
> should not be doing. To repeat. I can restart a show where I have
> the option of "play" or "play from" and hit "play from" and the thing
> goes and does whatever it is doing and goes back to the menu by itself
> and "play from" is no longer an option. I then have to hit play and
> fast forward to where I had left off. Myth has done something it
> should not have done, it isn't that it is slow. It has gone and done
> a bunch of stuff and lost its placemark in the process.
>
> Allen
>
Can you provide Backend and Frontend logs from when it has exhibited
this behavior.
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