On Thursday 06 October 2005 22:24, Mitko Haralanov wrote: > I have an interesting situation here that I have been noticing > lately. Last time I reinstalled my myth box, I decide to make a > dedicated partition for the buffer files. That way, no matter how much > I have already recorded, I always have the same amount of LiveTV > buffer. > > What I notice, however, is that when I start watching LiveTV, > the ring buffer file starts growing and never stops. It just doesn't > act as a ring buffer but rather as a normal file. Eventually, the > partition fills up and mythbackend goes into this infinite loop said > that there is not more space left on the device. What I have to do is > remove the ringbuffer file manually and then restart the backend. > > I did a search in the mailing list but did not find anyting > useful. Has anyone else see this? Does anyone know what might be going > wrong?
The ringbuffer will grow until it reaches the max size configured in the database. Try setting your max ringbuffer size to a smaller value; it's in mythtv-setup, a setting called "Live TV buffer (GB)". -JAC _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
