I upgraded to kernel 2.6.11 and hd3000 DVB drivers 2.0. I have not seen the IOBOUND msgs for 36 hours so far.
I'm keeping my fingers crossed that those errors are gone for good. Looking very promising :-) Thanks for the suggestions! Donn On 5/17/05, Blammo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/17/05, Donn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Over 2 weeks, I have read countless search hits and attempted several > > fixes to stop these awful IOBOUND message floods. I'm in need of some > > serious help. I have implemented many of the suggestions in the > > archives (and some of my own crazy ideas) with no luck. > > > > Sometimes when recording two shows at once, mythtv gets locked into a > > series of IOBOUND messages: > > > > 2005-05-16 23:36:43.145 IOBOUND - blocking in ThreadedFileWriter::Write() > > 2005-05-16 23:36:47.807 IOBOUND - blocking in ThreadedFileWriter::Write() > > 2005-05-16 23:36:52.579 IOBOUND - blocking in ThreadedFileWriter::Write() > > 2005-05-16 23:36:57.729 IOBOUND - blocking in ThreadedFileWriter::Write() > > I would suggest a couple things: > > 1. Move to a newer kernel. I had some strangeness with 2.6.9 / 2.6.10 > along the way with IO (air2pc / pvr-250 / 4-drive raid5) and moving to > 2.6.11 cured almost all of them. > > 2. Check your IRQ's. lspci -v and check for things sharing the same > IRQ. When you're faciing an IO problem sharing can become a big issue. > This was another key for me in removing IO problems. > > 3. What's the RAM clock on your machine? Is it 133 or 200? Should be > 133 to make the PC2100 happy. > _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
