I know, these always seem to be a problem. My problem seems to be that anytime 
a job is run that requires write access to the database (specifically when 
scheduling shows or when deleting a previous recording) quite often the 
mythbackend will simply up and die. I've checked the logs and nothing seems 
amiss... since I use binary packages is there a way I can up the verbosity of 
these logs to see if anything weird is going on?
 
Another time the backend dies is if I've been using Mythweb, that seems to 
cause more crashes than it's sometimes worth (though I do prefer using Mythweb 
to locate shows that I want to record). 
 
One other I've noticed is that occasionally the backend will also die upon 
completing a recording. Now, since I've tuned my recording settings recently I 
no longer transcode, I leave my recordings as mpeg2, so obviously the problem 
is occurring right at the moment that it should be starting to commercial flag 
those shows (I run automatically in my recordings). It's very inconsistent 
though, and in the logs I never see the commflag starting at all, just showing 
the Mythbackend restarting (I have a job that checks every minute if the 
process is running and restarts it if not). Of course, this means that I have 
to manually schedule the commflag job, but once I do that it works fine. I'd 
say the commflag works fine about 85% of the time, just sometimes it completely 
fails. Note that stuff recorded from commercial-free channels never seems to 
cause a mythbackend crash, so I think I'm pretty safe saying it's the 
commflagging.
 
Currently I'd say I lose backend about twice per day on average at the moment. 
Version 0.18.0 (not had time to do 0.18.1, but doesn't seem like it fixes any 
backend or commflag bugs).
 
Any thoughts?
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