Now and then I get these sectons of messages in my logs, sometimes it will go several hours before they appear, and other times it goes only 10 minutes before a chunk is written.. Vdr 1.3.37 with Softdevice CVS: After it goes "clearing transfer buffer to avoid overflows" (at the end) they stop appearing for a while. Dec 13 16:40:01 vdr cron[13273]: (root) CMD (test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons && /usr/sbin/run-crons ) Dec 13 16:47:41 vdr vdr[10997]: buffer usage: 70% (tid=2195465) Dec 13 16:47:41 vdr vdr[10997]: buffer usage: 60% (tid=2195465) Dec 13 16:48:09 vdr vdr[10997]: buffer usage: 70% (tid=2195465) Dec 13 16:48:09 vdr vdr[10997]: buffer usage: 60% (tid=2195465) Dec 13 16:48:09 vdr vdr[10997]: buffer usage: 70% (tid=2195465) Dec 13 16:48:09 vdr vdr[10997]: buffer usage: 60% (tid=2195465) Dec 13 16:48:09 vdr vdr[10997]: buffer usage: 70% (tid=2195465) Dec 13 16:48:09 vdr vdr[10997]: buffer usage: 60% (tid=2195465) Dec 13 16:48:44 vdr vdr[10997]: buffer usage: 70% (tid=2195465) Dec 13 16:48:44 vdr vdr[10997]: buffer usage: 60% (tid=2195465) Dec 13 16:48:44 vdr vdr[10997]: buffer usage: 70% (tid=2195465) Dec 13 16:48:44 vdr vdr[10997]: buffer usage: 60% (tid=2195465) Dec 13 16:49:09 vdr vdr[10997]: buffer usage: 70% (tid=2195465) Dec 13 16:49:09 vdr vdr[10997]: buffer usage: 60% (tid=2195465) Dec 13 16:49:11 vdr vdr[10997]: buffer usage: 70% (tid=2195465) Dec 13 16:49:11 vdr vdr[10997]: buffer usage: 60% (tid=2195465) Dec 13 16:49:25 vdr vdr[10997]: buffer usage: 70% (tid=2195465) Dec 13 16:49:25 vdr vdr[10997]: buffer usage: 60% (tid=2195465) Dec 13 16:49:30 vdr vdr[10997]: buffer usage: 70% (tid=2195465) Dec 13 16:49:31 vdr vdr[10997]: buffer usage: 80% (tid=2195465) Dec 13 16:49:32 vdr vdr[10997]: buffer usage: 60% (tid=2195465) Dec 13 16:49:40 vdr vdr[10997]: buffer usage: 70% (tid=2195465) Dec 13 16:49:40 vdr vdr[10997]: buffer usage: 60% (tid=2195465) Dec 13 16:49:40 vdr vdr[10997]: buffer usage: 70% (tid=2195465) Dec 13 16:49:41 vdr vdr[10997]: buffer usage: 60% (tid=2195465) Dec 13 16:49:41 vdr vdr[10997]: buffer usage: 70% (tid=2195465) Dec 13 16:49:41 vdr vdr[10997]: buffer usage: 60% (tid=2195465) Dec 13 16:49:41 vdr vdr[10997]: buffer usage: 70% (tid=2195465) Dec 13 16:49:41 vdr vdr[10997]: buffer usage: 60% (tid=2195465) Dec 13 16:49:41 vdr vdr[10997]: buffer usage: 70% (tid=2195465) Dec 13 16:49:41 vdr vdr[10997]: buffer usage: 60% (tid=2195465) Dec 13 16:49:41 vdr vdr[10997]: buffer usage: 70% (tid=2195465) Dec 13 16:49:41 vdr vdr[10997]: buffer usage: 60% (tid=2195465) Dec 13 16:49:52 vdr vdr[10997]: buffer usage: 70% (tid=2195465) Dec 13 16:49:52 vdr vdr[10997]: buffer usage: 60% (tid=2195465) Dec 13 16:49:52 vdr vdr[10997]: buffer usage: 70% (tid=2195465) Dec 13 16:49:52 vdr vdr[10997]: buffer usage: 60% (tid=2195465) Dec 13 16:49:52 vdr vdr[10997]: buffer usage: 70% (tid=2195465) Dec 13 16:49:52 vdr vdr[10997]: buffer usage: 60% (tid=2195465) Dec 13 16:49:52 vdr vdr[10997]: buffer usage: 70% (tid=2195465) Dec 13 16:49:52 vdr vdr[10997]: buffer usage: 60% (tid=2195465) Dec 13 16:50:01 vdr cron[13285]: (root) CMD (test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons && /usr/sbin/run-crons ) Dec 13 16:50:09 vdr vdr[10997]: buffer usage: 70% (tid=2195465) Dec 13 16:50:09 vdr vdr[10997]: buffer usage: 60% (tid=2195465) Dec 13 16:50:09 vdr vdr[10997]: buffer usage: 70% (tid=2195465) Dec 13 16:50:09 vdr vdr[10997]: buffer usage: 60% (tid=2195465) Dec 13 16:50:09 vdr vdr[10997]: buffer usage: 70% (tid=2195465) Dec 13 16:50:09 vdr vdr[10997]: buffer usage: 60% (tid=2195465) Dec 13 16:50:09 vdr vdr[10997]: buffer usage: 70% (tid=2195465) Dec 13 16:50:09 vdr vdr[10997]: buffer usage: 60% (tid=2195465) Dec 13 16:50:09 vdr vdr[10997]: buffer usage: 70% (tid=2195465) Dec 13 16:50:09 vdr vdr[10997]: buffer usage: 60% (tid=2195465) Dec 13 16:50:10 vdr vdr[10997]: buffer usage: 70% (tid=2195465) Dec 13 16:50:11 vdr vdr[10997]: buffer usage: 80% (tid=2195465) Dec 13 16:50:11 vdr vdr[10997]: buffer usage: 60% (tid=2195465) Dec 13 16:50:13 vdr vdr[10997]: buffer usage: 70% (tid=2195465) Dec 13 16:50:14 vdr vdr[10997]: buffer usage: 80% (tid=2195465) Dec 13 16:50:15 vdr vdr[10997]: buffer usage: 90% (tid=2195465) Dec 13 16:50:15 vdr vdr[11811]: clearing transfer buffer to avoid overflows