[vdr] Re: How to debug recordings menu problems

["Seeberg, Ingo" <iseebe@ossi.fho-emden.de>]

Short info,
after deleting my unnessessary non-recording files and increasing the
watchdog timeout my problem seems to be solved.

It's surely not a solution - but it's great that it's working again :-)

Thanks,

Ingo

----- Original Message -----
From: "Seeberg, Ingo" <iseebe@ossi.fho-emden.de>
To: <vdr@linuxtv.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 8:25 PM
Subject: [vdr] Re: How to debug recordings menu problems


> Hello there,
>
> I'll try to get up all answers I got in this message:
>
> I'm using an EXT3 partition because of data losses with ReiserFS in the
> past.
> I tried XFS a long time ago and had good expiriences, but dropped it
'cause
> of problems during the new installation in cause of system crashes.
>
> With EXT3 I recognized speed problems which vanished after exchange of my
> harddisk.
> Now I'm using a Maxtor 80GB Disk with 8MB Buffer - and DMA enabled. Should
> be fast enough - even during playback and recording at same time.
>
> I tried just now to increase the value of the -w parameter but can't tell
> whether it worked for now.
>
> The crashes are happening often after new recordings are done or during
> recording process.
> Also it happens that - with the DVD changing plugin (the one for ISO
> images) - after adding a new image VDR is crashing, too.
>
> The partition is about  75 GB space and contains some backup data in
> addition to my recordings. Perhaps should try to remove all files which
have
> nothing to do with recordings.
>
> If it would be possible to improve the code which is searching the disc,
or
> to patch my installation it would be very great - perhaps I could get the
> code dropped by SuSE?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andreas Mair" <Andreas.Mair@linogate.com>
> To: <vdr@linuxtv.org>
> Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 9:00 AM
> Subject: [vdr] Re: How to debug recordings menu problems
>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > im using VDR 1.2.6 but have that problem too:
> > In case the OSD menu pops up and has to wait a long time until the
action
> is
> > finished, VDR restarts. I can reproduce this when some cutting process
is
> > running and I start the mediadetection plugin to view a DVD. It also
> > happens when I call NoAd from the recordings commands menu (NoAd then
runs
> > in the foreground).
> >
> > Ingo, in your case I guess it lasts too long to scan the /video folder.
> > Slow harddisc? No DMA? Big video partition with lots of nested folders?
> > Cutting or NoAd process running in the background?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Andreas
> >
> >
> > On Wednesday 21 April 2004 20:21, Seeberg, Ingo wrote:
> > > Hello there,
> > > I'am using VDR 1.3.5 with AIO4c and some plugins of course.
> > >
> > > Sometimes it causes too much time to open the recordings menu and VDR
is
> > > restarting.
> > >
> > > With a compiled version on my old system (it crashed and I had to set
it
> > > up again) it worked fine - but with the new installed system the
problem
> > > starts to "take nerves" ;-)
> > >
> > > Anyone an idea howto debug or probably already a solution?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance
> > >
> > > Ingo
> >
> >
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