I had this problem when my machine was "fresh out of the box" as well. I found
that setting mythfrontend suid root fixed that. Not perfect from a security
standpoint, I know... but the box is well defended behind a firewall and its
own internal firewall.
Another possibility is memory. Or possibly something that's running in the
background.
Oh, one other possibility would be filesystem in use on the video partition.
I've found (through trial and error) that XFS is by far the best filesystem to
use on the video partition for general use. It deletes instantly, almost never
seems to get fragmented or "busy" and generally is a nice FS to use. I tried
ReiserFS (kept trying to rewrite journals while I was trying to watch TV) and
ext3 (fragmented too easily for my tastes)... though I've been led to believe
from a friend of mine that you can use an ext2 partition for buffers so long as
you keep 'em below 2Gb. That apparently works well.
As mentioned before, it could also be MySQL... but to be honest I doubt it.
Normally MySQL is pretty solid and doesn't just randomly do stuff unless you
tell it. However, I wouldn't rule it out.
Gavin
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Steve Adeff
Sent: Mon 1/16/2006 5:24 PM
To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org
Cc:
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Intermittant high disk activity
On Monday 16 January 2006 16:41, mike choy wrote:
> Hi Team
>
> Having just put my SUSE 10.0 Myth machine into production with 0.18.1
> all seems to be well except that
> every now and then the front end video pauses, and the disk activity
> light goes like crazy, almost as if the machine
> has gone into some sort of paging mode. The duration can vary from a
few
> seconds to 15/20 seconds.
> If I exit from watching live tv back to the main menu the disk
activity
> stops.
>
> Any idea how I can find out whats going on?
>
> Mike C
mysql?
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Steve
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