[vdr] Re: dvb threatening file system? [was Drop support for multiple video dirs?]

[Rene Bartsch <ml@bartschnet.de>]

Am Dienstag, 7. Oktober 2003 09:59 schrieben Sie:
>
> The problem is, that usually the cpu and all other components are only
> tested for a few minutes to run properly and not under all conditions. Vdr
> is putting some stress on the system...
>
> I mean - i put my new system under really big stress these days by running
> lots of things in parallel (gentoo emerges, webbrowser, scanner, sound) and
> got it crashed after some hours. Before that the compiler started to make
> failures (it exited with segfaults). The latter are known for such
> problems, especially if the compiler fails never at the same place. Other
> applications did'nt show a slight sign that there might be something wrong,
> so it's quite likely to overlook such problems.
>
> Traced it down to the memory chips - they are PC133 but they do not run
> properly at 133MHz (i tried single and double-sided ones and i heard
> Infineon are good ones), sooner or later they fail. If that happens during
> some file-system-action it's likely to create serious damage...
>
> It seems that todays hardware is running to close to the limits - my
> mainboard allows me to set the frequency in MHz steps, so i reduced it by 3
> MHz (130 instead of 133) and anything is rock-solid.

I checked my server with a 48 hour burn-in test and everything was fine ...

But after installing OS/VDR the problems occurred ...

Rene


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