> Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 17:26:02 -0500 > From: Dave <inssomniak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Buffer Messages in Logs > To: vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx > > 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 16:50:11 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 I can confirm that this is a serious problem that a lot of people have - even with FF-cards. We discussed this in german vdrportal forum, and we have not found a solution yet. I tried this http://linuxtv.org/pipermail/vdr/2005-November/006393.html without success. Also this patch http://linuxtv.org/pipermail/vdr/2005-November/006337.html did not solve the problem - but it seems to take a few minutes longer until the buffer is full. I wonder why the buffer problem appears regularly on some machines and others never report this issue.
