On 1/8/06, Al McIntosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 09:34:41AM -0500, Al McIntosh wrote: > > > > > >>>>Dec 15 07:28:27 mythbox kernel: ivtv0 warning: ENC Stream 0 OVERFLOW > >>>>#2: > >>>>Stealing a Buf > >>>>fer, 512 currently allocated > >>>> > >>>> > >>More memory does not appear to help. Did anyone manage a fix for this? > >> > >> > > > >In my case, it turned out that my network card was on the same IRQ as > >all three IDE channels (software RAID-5), and while the box would > >usually record OK, if I was doing something network-intensive (like > >watching TV on the remote Myth frontend) the network card would > >generate so many IRQs it was delaying the drives to the point where > >the front-end would stutter, ivtv would overflow, and eventually the > >RAID driver would fail a drive. That would have been fine, except > >that the ethernet watchdog (tulip driver) would panic the kernel. I > >tried forcing the cards to specific IRQs but the tulip driver > >wouldn't behave. I switched to a different ethernet port and ALL of > >the problems went away. > > > > > Interesting, I have a rather fast mythbox, AMD 2800+ with 1G ram and a > single pvr250. The buffer overflow often occurs in the middle of the > night when the only load on the machine is mythbackend recording.
Perhaps when mythfilldatabase is running? -- # Endaf _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
