Udo Richter wrote: > Rainer Zocholl wrote: > >>See that this is a race condition? >>All these attemps occurs in the same second! > > > Actually not a race condition, more like a denial of service. > > Had something similar once, because of missing write access to a folder. > VDR fails and tries again and again. There is no 'giving up' state for VDR. > > >>Is that fixed in newer releases? > > > Just compared sources, there are no relevant changes in that area > between .18 and .23. So I would guess that updating wont solve your problem. > > In that case where your disk did run full: Did you have remaining *.del > recordings waiting for cleanup? Are you sure there were *.rec recordings > that were free for deleting? These clean up old recordings rules are > *very* tricky. > > I'm working on a patch that marks 'ready to delete' recordings, because > I usually let VDR decide what to delete and when. (just dont have the > time to get it completed.) As long as you dont see what may get deleted, > this strategy is a mine field. Removing deleted recordings works just fine for me, as does automatic deleting/removing in case thedisk runs full while recording. I've never had any problem like the ones described here. Maybe it's a problem with some patches or plugins? I use plain vanilla VDR. Klaus
