[vdr] Re: Strange VDR hangup filled up my disk

[s.huelswitt@gmx.de (Stefan Huelswitt)]

On 06 Jan 2002 Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de> wrote:

> Stefan Huelswitt wrote:
>> 
>> Yes, this is the best explanation I found, too. But this leads me
>> to the idea, if it's suficient to have an internal watchdog. Why
>> not let VDR touch a special file, lets say one a minute? One
>> could watch this file with a simple, independent script and if
>> the file date doesn't changes, kill & restart VDR.
> 
> Actually there is already such a file: epg.data.
> Ok, it is written only every 10 minutes, but that's probably better
> than nothing...

Well, only if you have more than one card and you have epg scan
enabled (I have them disabled as this keeps crashing my second
card all the time). In this case epg.data is only updated if
someone switches a channel.

>> One think I don't understand, why is the OSD involved? It was
>> just at the start of a timer even.
> 
> Could it be that that recording was done on the primary card, and that
> the channel switching caused the OSD access?

Yes.

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