[vdr] too many processes?

[Klaus Schmidinger]

André Bischof wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm running vdr 1.3.31 with a nova-t and a dxr3. I'm experiencing a lot 
> sync problems, investigating in that problem I had to recognize that vdr 
> builds a lot of subprocesses.
> 
>  |-runvdr /usr/sbin/runvdr -v /video -c /var/lib/vdr -r 
> /usr/lib/vdr/vdr-recordingaction -s...
>   |   `-vdr-kbd -v /video -c /var/lib/vdr -r 
> /usr/lib/vdr/vdr-recordingaction -s/usr/lib/vdr/vdr-shut
>   |       `-vdr-kbd -v /video -c /var/lib/vdr -r 
> /usr/lib/vdr/vdr-recordingaction -s...
>   |           |-vdr-kbd -v /video -c /var/lib/vdr -r 
> /usr/lib/vdr/vdr-recordingaction -s...
>   |           |-vdr-kbd -v /video -c /var/lib/vdr -r 
> /usr/lib/vdr/vdr-recordingaction -s...
>   |           |-vdr-kbd -v /video -c /var/lib/vdr -r 
> /usr/lib/vdr/vdr-recordingaction -s...
>   |           |-vdr-kbd -v /video -c /var/lib/vdr -r 
> /usr/lib/vdr/vdr-recordingaction -s...
>   |           |-vdr-kbd -v /video -c /var/lib/vdr -r 
> /usr/lib/vdr/vdr-recordingaction -s...
>   |           |-vdr-kbd -v /video -c /var/lib/vdr -r 
> /usr/lib/vdr/vdr-recordingaction -s...
>   |           |-vdr-kbd -v /video -c /var/lib/vdr -r 
> /usr/lib/vdr/vdr-recordingaction -s...
>   |           `-vdr-kbd -v /video -c /var/lib/vdr -r 
> /usr/lib/vdr/vdr-recordingaction -s...
> 
> Is that normal behaviour or some kind of misconfiguration? If so, how I 
> can I put that right?

Depending on how many DVB devices your system has, this is normal.
See the log file for information on what these threads do.

Klaus