[mythtvnz] Mythbackend crashes

[Steve Hodge]

On 9/6/06, Toby Mills <toby@np.co.nz> wrote:
> Has anyone had any luck tracing the cause of the recent DVB issues that were
> widely reported.

Not me, other than establishing it's a memory leak.

> I'm running a skystar technisat with knoppmyth R5C7 with IVTV upgraded to
> 4.4.

I'm running Gentoo (mythtv-0.19_p9163-r1).

> Nothing odd coming up in any system or myth logs.

Are you seeing the kernel OOM system killing mythbackend in the kernel logs?

> My conclusion based on the fact that many people are having the same problem
> running various different versions of myth is that either something has
> changed in the DVB signal or there are too many errors or problems with the
> signal and either the card or mythbackend isn't coping with it.

I've seen similar reports on the main mythtv lists so I don't think
this is a TVNZ only issue.

I'm going to try switching to the Sky transmission today to see if
that makes any difference. Has anyone else tried this yet?

Cheers,
Steve