I demand that Klaus Schmidinger may or may not have written... > hgm.bg wrote: >> Is there a possibility to implement the same way .update works a way to >> start the cleanup thread which is deleting the deleted recordings ? I'm >> usually low an diskspace and when try to free space for new recordings it >> takes mostly more than 5 minutes of an idle VDR to delete the recordings >> on the system. Sometimes 5 minutes is too long :) [...] I find that it often takes too long too... > recording.c: > #define REMOVECHECKDELTA 3600 // seconds between checks for removing deleted files Experimental patch (compile-tested only) attached. It adjusts the removal check scheduling so that removal occurs at (by default) 6 minutes after deletion. There is a 1-minute minimum delay, and the delay is reset every time a recording is marked for deletion. This also gives you enough time to unmark a recording, either by renaming it manually or by using an undelete plugin. -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | d youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Debian, | Northumberland | s zap,tartarus,org | RISC OS | Toon Army | @ Say NO to UK ID cards | http://www.no2id.net/ You will survive the conflagration. -------------- next part -------------- --- vdr-1.3.34/recording.c~ +++ vdr-1.3.34/recording.c @@ -61,10 +61,10 @@ bool VfatFileSystem = false; static cRecordings DeletedRecordings(true); +static time_t LastRemoveCheck = 0; void RemoveDeletedRecordings(void) { - static time_t LastRemoveCheck = 0; if (LastRemoveCheck == 0) { DeletedRecordings.Update(); LastRemoveCheck = time(NULL) - REMOVECHECKDELTA * 9 / 10; @@ -718,6 +718,7 @@ } isyslog("deleting recording %s", FileName()); result = RenameVideoFile(FileName(), NewName); + LastRemoveCheck = time(NULL) - max (60, REMOVECHECKDELTA * 9 / 10); } free(NewName); return result;