Bill, my observation is that over time rivendell computers get a bit slow and that seems to be a function of the size of the library. When more than 80% of the HD is used things get a bit pear shaped.
My server is 4gb and it's all being used : I do have problems with hour long programmes being loaded in which is causing me some annoyance. The problem I have is at dropbox not at air time. I will be looking closer this week at the problem and see if there are any clues. regards Robert On 29/08/2011 09:37, Bill Putney wrote: > Robert, > > I just noticed that this machine is very light on RAM. It was a machine > I pressed into service because another one was crashing all the time. > Looks like I should add a few more GB. > > Still, I wonder if it was running out of memory why it didn't complain. > I can see it getting slow because it has to swap out but from the top > below you can see that there probably isn't much swapping going on (not > at least during the snapshot). > > Bill Putney - KPTZ Port Townsend, WA > > top - 14:20:20 up 2 days, 18:26, 2 users, load average: 0.63, 0.98, 1.01 > Tasks: 161 total, 1 running, 160 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie > Cpu(s): 22.9%us, 6.9%sy, 0.0%ni, 70.3%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, > 0.0%st > Mem: 1026380k total, 1011048k used, 15332k free, 61072k buffers > Swap: 3004408k total, 0k used, 3004408k free, 729828k cached > > df -m > Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Available Use% > Mounted on > /dev/sda1 131418 2244 122499 2% / > none 498 1 > 497 1% /dev > none 502 1 > 502 1% /dev/shm > none 502 1 > 502 1% /var/run > none 502 0 > 502 0% /var/lock > none 502 0 > 502 0% /lib/init/rw > /dev/sda6 15923 748 14367 > 5% /var > 192.168.192.201:/var/snd 938878 419092 472094 48% /var/snd > > > On 8/28/11 1:35 PM, Robert Jeffares wrote: >> next option is a ram upgrade or look to see how much space you have on >> the hard drive of the playout machine >> >> I think RD loads the long programme in somewhere close for convenience >> if the playout card is on the playout machine not the server . >> >> Dontch love this program? I am trying to get rd 2.x to compile on centos >> 5.6 and i am rapidly looking for an appliance install becaus there are >> so many ' missing ' bits. >> >> Robert >> >> On 28/08/2011 07:28, Bill Putney wrote: >>> Robert, >>> >>> The cart will play. All I have to do is add it into the running log and >>> start it. Which is what happens if someone happens to be there to catch >>> it when this happens. If I open the cut in RDLibrary "Edit Markers" they >>> all look fine. I would think if the markers were screwed up the cut >>> wouldn't play after it was added back into the log. >>> >>> The audio is on a common server and is NFS mounted on the playout >>> machine. The server is connected to a switch and the server and the >>> playout client are on the same layer 3 network. Everything is 100 Mbps >>> and the server isn't doing anything but audio and database for Rivendell. >>> >>> It is various programs. They seem to be the longer ones not spots, id's >>> or music cuts. >>> >>> We're using USB -> S/PDIF as output devices. The chipset is in the Linux >>> HCL for audio. >>> >>> Bill Putney - KPTZ Port Townsend, WA >>> >>> On 8/27/11 12:08 PM, Robert Jeffares wrote: >>>> Bill, >>>> >>>> Does the cart play? Is all the audio in there? Are all the markers in >>>> the right place? >>>> >>>> What was the source of the Audio? >>>> >>>> Is it always the same programme? >>>> >>>> Have had probs with incompatible audio here. >>>> >>>> Robert >>>> >>>> On 26/08/2011 17:56, Bill Putney wrote: >>>>> At 17:03:50 in the following /var/log/syslog excerpt, Cart 80145 Cut 2 >>>>> should have played. It is an hour long program. It skipped and did not >>>>> play. . I don't know what "position out of bounds" means but it seems >>>>> that everything is playing out of bounds. The items before and after the >>>>> cart that failed played normally. I see that the cart that started after >>>>> (cart 80133) did not have a position out of bounds associated with it. >>>>> Has anyone got an idea what that is or what I can do to get rid of it? >>>>> >>>>> Any ideas? Anybody? Please! >>>>> >>>>> Thanks, Bill Putney - KPTZ Port Townsend, WA >>>>> >>>>> Aug 24 17:00:11 auto-mc rdairplay: *** position out of bounds on signal: >>>>> Line: 24 Cart: 14418 Pos: 250025 *** >>>>> Aug 24 17:00:11 auto-mc caed: alsaStopTimerData(16) >>>>> Aug 24 17:00:11 auto-mc rdairplay: finished event: Line: 24 Cart: >>>>> 14418 Cut: 1 Card: 1 Stream: 0 Port: 0 >>>>> Aug 24 17:00:11 auto-mc caed: UnloadPlayback - Card: 1 Stream: 0 >>>>> Handle: 166 >>>>> Aug 24 17:00:11 auto-mc caed: LoadPlayback Card: 1 Stream: 0 Name: >>>>> /var/snd/045103_001.wav Handle: 167 >>>>> Aug 24 17:00:11 auto-mc rdairplay: started audio cart: Line: 25 Cart: >>>>> 45103 Cut: 1 Pos: 0 Card: 1 Stream: 0 Port: 0 >>>>> Aug 24 17:00:11 auto-mc caed: PlaybackPosition - Card: 1 Stream: 0 >>>>> Pos: 78 Handle: 167 >>>>> Aug 24 17:00:11 auto-mc caed: Play - Card: 1 Stream: 0 Handle: 167 >>>>> Length: 7863 Speed: 100000 Pitch: 0 >>>>> Aug 24 17:00:12 auto-mc caed: FadeLevel: 0 >>>>> Aug 24 17:00:19 auto-mc rdairplay: *** position out of bounds on signal: >>>>> Line: 25 Cart: 45103 Pos: 7801 *** >>>>> Aug 24 17:00:19 auto-mc caed: alsaStopTimerData(16) >>>>> Aug 24 17:00:19 auto-mc rdairplay: finished event: Line: 25 Cart: >>>>> 45103 Cut: 1 Card: 1 Stream: 0 Port: 0 >>>>> Aug 24 17:00:19 auto-mc caed: UnloadPlayback - Card: 1 Stream: 0 >>>>> Handle: 167 >>>>> Aug 24 17:00:19 auto-mc caed: LoadPlayback Card: 1 Stream: 0 Name: >>>>> /var/snd/070003_001.wav Handle: 168 >>>>> Aug 24 17:00:19 auto-mc rdairplay: started audio cart: Line: 26 Cart: >>>>> 70003 Cut: 1 Pos: 0 Card: 1 Stream: 0 Port: 0 >>>>> Aug 24 17:00:19 auto-mc caed: PlaybackPosition - Card: 1 Stream: 0 >>>>> Pos: 0 Handle: 168 >>>>> Aug 24 17:00:19 auto-mc caed: Play - Card: 1 Stream: 0 Handle: 168 >>>>> Length: 210372 Speed: 100000 Pitch: 0 >>>>> Aug 24 17:00:20 auto-mc caed: FadeLevel: 0 >>>>> Aug 24 17:03:50 auto-mc rdairplay: *** position out of bounds on signal: >>>>> Line: 26 Cart: 70003 Pos: 210278 *** >>>>> Aug 24 17:03:50 auto-mc caed: UnloadPlayback - Card: 1 Stream: 0 >>>>> Handle: 168 >>>>> Aug 24 17:03:50 auto-mc rdairplay: finished event: Line: 26 Cart: >>>>> 70003 Cut: 1 Card: 1 Stream: 0 Port: 0 >>>>> Aug 24 17:03:50 auto-mc caed: LoadPlayback Card: 1 Stream: 0 Name: >>>>> /var/snd/080145_002.wav Handle: 169 >>>>> Aug 24 17:03:50 auto-mc caed: alsaStopTimerData(16) >>>>> Aug 24 17:03:50 auto-mc rdairplay: started audio cart: Line: 27 Cart: >>>>> 80145 Cut: 2 Pos: 0 Card: 1 Stream: 0 Port: 0 >>>>> Aug 24 17:03:50 auto-mc rdairplay: finished event: Line: 27 Cart: >>>>> 80145 Cut: 2 Card: 1 Stream: 0 Port: 0 >>>>> Aug 24 17:03:50 auto-mc caed: PlaybackPosition - Card: 1 Stream: 0 >>>>> Pos: 0 Handle: 169 >>>>> Aug 24 17:03:50 auto-mc caed: Play - Card: 1 Stream: 0 Handle: 169 >>>>> Length: 3594892 Speed: 100000 Pitch: 0 >>>>> Aug 24 17:03:50 auto-mc caed: UnloadPlayback - Card: 1 Stream: 0 >>>>> Handle: 169 >>>>> Aug 24 17:03:50 auto-mc caed: LoadPlayback Card: 1 Stream: 0 Name: >>>>> /var/snd/080133_001.wav Handle: 170 >>>>> Aug 24 17:03:50 auto-mc caed: FadeLevel: 0 >>>>> Aug 24 17:03:50 auto-mc rdairplay: started audio cart: Line: 28 Cart: >>>>> 80133 Cut: 1 Pos: 0 Card: 1 Stream: 0 Port: 0 >>>>> Aug 24 17:03:50 auto-mc caed: PlaybackPosition - Card: 1 Stream: 0 >>>>> Pos: 0 Handle: 170 >>>>> Aug 24 17:03:50 auto-mc caed: Play - Card: 1 Stream: 0 Handle: 170 >>>>> Length: 1740094 Speed: 100000 Pitch: 0 >>>>> Aug 24 17:03:50 auto-mc caed: FadeLevel: 0 >>>>> Aug 24 17:04:00 auto-mc caed: ****** ALSA Capture Xrun - Card: 0 ****** >>>>> On 8/24/11 8:04 PM, James Harrison wrote: >>>>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>>>>> Hash: SHA1 >>>>>> >>>>>> Check rd.conf for your own system specific logging configuration, but >>>>>> check both the daemons and syslog logfiles; alternatively, configure a >>>>>> specific log path or syslog logfile/service. Not sure if automation >>>>>> decisions are logged there, but playout system stuff certainly gets >>>>>> logged to those locations from caed... >>>>>> >>>>>> Cheers, >>>>>> James Harrison >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On 25/08/2011 02:49, Bill Putney wrote: >>>>>>> This is driving us crazy! At least once a day, a cart that is scheduled >>>>>>> to play (usually a long one like a prerecorded show) is skipped in the >>>>>>> middle of a log. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I can't figure out why this happens but I know somewhere there has got >>>>>>> to be a system log file (like syslog or something) that should tell me >>>>>>> everything the automation system is doing and I should be able to see >>>>>>> the skip happen. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> We're using RRAbuntu 1.7.2... >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Help! >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Thanks, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Bill Putney - KPTZ Port Townsend, WA >>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>> Rivendell-dev mailing list >>>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>>> http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev >>>>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >>>>>> Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) >>>>>> Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ >>>>>> >>>>>> iEYEARECAAYFAk5Vu9YACgkQmJV2s0zjsDgKfACdF1W8W/2O4K3X/YPWlu9L97WY >>>>>> d/EAnAjIMV5eprpuHmorOECFzaEyTyEp >>>>>> =mo9i >>>>>> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> Rivendell-dev mailing list >>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>> http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Rivendell-dev mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Rivendell-dev mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev > > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev -- Robert Jeffares Big Valley Radio Thames New Zealand _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
