On 9/15/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael T. Dean</b> <<a href="mailto:mtdean@thirdcontact.com">mtdean@thirdcontact.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 09/14/2007 05:50 PM, Steve Skarda wrote:<br>> I have my mythtv-setup set to allow 1 simultaneous job to run at one<br>> time. However, when I look at the task lists, I have had as many as<br>> 8 processes named commercial flagging listed.
<br><br>If you're really talking about the "process list", you could be seeing<br>multiple threads.<br><br>> Consequently, my cpu goes to near 100% load and I believe that<br>> ithis may be causing my mythbackend to die.
<br>><br>> 1). Is it normal to see several tasks in the process list even if<br>> myth is only set to flag one job at a time?<br><br>You should look at the backend status page to find out how many jobs are<br>actually running (
i.e. the status of the job). It's available through<br>MythWeb. If you've configured the one job at a time (on /this/ host),<br>it should show all others as queued. Remember, it's a per-host setting...<br><br>
> 2). Is it normal to have backend die with 100% cpu loading.<br><br>No. It is not normal for the backend to ever die. I start mine and let<br>it run until the next time I upgrade it. I don't have any kind of<br>
script to restart it--it just doesn't die. Unfortunately, that doesn't<br>help you figure out what's wrong with your setup/installation.<br><br>Mike<br>_______________________________________________</blockquote>
<div><br>I think I was looking at the wrong problem here. The 7-8 jobs I saw was probably due to the fact that the backend kept crashing and restarting. Later, I had the backend die with no commercial flagging jobs running & low cpu. This is a tough one to troubleshoot.
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