John Pilkington wrote: > Thomas Janssen wrote: >> 2010/1/12 John Pilkington <J.Pilk at tesco.net>: >>> Hi: I know f10 has gone EOL but I'm still running it until I 'finish' >>> my parallel install of f12. The f10 system has the kde 4.3.3 packages >>> from f10 updates, and I don't think I saw this problem before they were >>> installed - but I also recently added a 1TB sdb, upgraded to mythtv 0.22 >>> and began regular use of ProjectX under java (from Sun). >>> >>> Usually things work as expected, but there is a problem. The paralysis >>> usually occurs when both sda and sdb are being accessed, sometimes quite >>> intensively; things progressively stop working as I switch windows, and >>> I can't shut down and do a normal reboot because several devices say >>> they are busy. The only way out seems to be to switch off. On reboot >>> everything has, so far, been ok, but dvb recordings that were in >>> progress aren't properly closed. >>> >>> I've always had Konqueror open, with tabs showing the recordings folders >>> on the two drives, when this has happened. Today it was apparently >>> precipitated by opening the second tab. I'm wondering if I've hit a >>> Konqueror bug, or if I may have a BIOS/sdb mismatch. Any ideas? >>> Perhaps I should try Dolphin again. >> Could be that you have enabled Nepomuk in System-Settings and it bites you. >> The Redland backend is aweful slow and freezes Konqueror/Dolphin. But >> the rest should normally still work. > > Nepomuk is running but only looking at folders that probably don't > change much. I haven't seen it in featuring in atop. >> You could as well try to have your HDDs on different controller >> (guessing they are on the same). > > Yes, thanks for this. It seems that I have one two-channel and one > four-channel controller (Intel DG965OT board) but I haven't yet found > out which feeds which socket and I don't see any colour coding etc. > I've moved the new drive from 1 to 5 and what worked before still seems > to work now, so it's time to wait-and-see. > > John P > That didn't stop the symptoms, but it's now fairly clear that I need to work on the results of searches in the mythtv lists for IOBOUND, and probably stop trying to process old recordings while making several new ones. End of story on this list, I think. John P
