[mythtv-users] mythlogserver multiple copies high cpu

[Michael T. Dean]

On 03/07/2013 07:21 AM, Craig Treleaven wrote:
> If you grep the logs, (say for "bin/mythlogserver"), you ought to find 
> several instances of mythlogserver being started while you were at 
> dinner.  Maybe they are all in your mythbackend log, but they could 
> also be in the logs of any other program that ran in that period:  
> mythcommflag (?), mythtranscode, mythpreviewgen, etc.

And, TTBOMK, this--coupled with a system misconfiguration--is generally 
how/why you end up with multiple instances of mythlogserver, and when 
you get multiple instances, you'll always get high CPU usage.

My understanding is that on a distro where you run different MythTV 
processes as different users, eventually, a user without proper write 
permissions on one or more of the directories where mythlogserver 
attempts to write log files will start mythlogserver.  Then, it 
basically "breaks" (or locks or ...), and eventually some other process 
starts another copy (and the cycle may repeat).  You can either fix your 
file system permissions so that all users running all MythTV processes 
have write permission on all directories where you're logging, or use 
the same system user to run all MythTV processes, or use syslog logging.

Mike