[mythtvnz] Mythbackend crashes

[Steven Ellis]

Toby Mills wrote:
>>No luck tracing, but my machine hasn't actually crashed.  I've just
>>noticed tremendously slow downs, towards the end of recording, and
>>this was verified watching top at the time.
>>Machine running FC5 x86_64 (kernel 2.6.17-1.2174), ivtv 0.7, 2GB RAM,
>>2GB SWAP
>
> Ok, yes you do have a bit more headroom than me, I've only got 512Mb in my
> backend which is cutting it fine a bit, still its been ok for 6 months so
> this is definitely something that has happened in the last week.
> My mythbackend rarely crashes, the box just slows down to a crawl and
> pages
> furiously, it often takes 3 or 4 minutes to ssh in and shut her down and
> because it usually happens while the wife is standing over my shoulder
> tapping her foot I haven't really had a chance to snoop around while its
> doing it to diagnose any further.
> I'll order some more RAM for a start which I've been meaning to do for
> ages
> and hopefully that may reduce the swapping somewhat and give it a bit more
> breathing space. I might also cron a daily reboot.

Hmm Which DVB driver are you all using? Had a look at the dvb mailing list
and mercurial recently for changes?

Steve