Certainly a surface/read error can cause unusual delays in getting the next block of data leading to stuttering behavior as you describe. Good luck with the other disk.
Gregg On Aug 30, 2012, at 5:49 PM, Robert Jeffares <[email protected]> wrote: > for the moment I am at the 'dodgy disk drive' solution. > > I think the problem is a drive with some wear and tear after four years > of use. > > I am going to take the main system off line tonight, run from the backup > and explore a few possibilities. > > dmseg had some comments about sdb which lead me to believe we may have > drive issues > > R > > On Thu, 2012-08-30 at 14:33 -0500, Gregg Wonderly wrote: >> Are there file access notifications being used in Rivendell? Would the >> update of the "last access time" on the file that you are copying from, >> cause Rivendell to stop a thread of execution to see what was going on? I >> have not looked at the source of any of the rivendell pieces in depth yet to >> know how much "activity" triggers various behaviors. >> >> Gregg >> >> On Aug 29, 2012, at 10:33 PM, Robert Jeffares <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> On Wed, 2012-08-29 at 21:31 -0500, Gregg Wonderly wrote: >>>> What do you see in the /var/log/messages system log files? >>>> >>>> Gregg >>>> _____ >>> >>> nothing I can determine that is untoward >>> >>> That was the first place I looked. >>> >>> when the song playing is stopped; nothing is logged. >>> >>> then it starts again as if nothing happened >>> >>> R >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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
