Reboot after so many recordings...

[agidius]

GBPVR and Apache
some hardware drivers

everything else on this machine was installed by microsoft.
I still blame microsoft.

[pastro]

Have you guys that have to boot your system every couple of days to get good performance looked at the memory usage of various processes? For example my usb network controller was growing at a MB every five minutes or so. Previous to this release I had trouble with GB-PVR with memory usage when I would play MP3s. Maybe you guys have a memory leak that needs to be addressed.

[Cahill84]

I will start to monitor this to see if that's the case. Thanks for the suggestion.

[liteswap]

Yeah, I would agree, I would be hesitant to say that it's an unstable program. It's not that I'm having massive crashes, but stuff just starts lagging and responding differently. I'm fairly meticulus in watching it's performance. Sometimes I will have typed all my papers at the school's library, so my system is only using Gb-pvr. After three-four days of going into and out of sleep mode it will be slow to open gb-pvr when I finally get a chance to watch the files. Furthermore, the program has problems opening. For instance, the scrolling recording updates in the middle of the start-up screen won't load- saying that I have no recordings pending. Or, the program will open, but it won't let you click on any of the buttons. All I have to do is give it a good reboot and boom, it's back to working. I'm not experiencing any other problems beyond that though. I was just looking for a way to automate it. I guess I'll talk to my dad and see if he can help me write a batch file. To take that stuff into effect.

My problems aren't that extreme but I do experience GB-PVR being sluggish and reluctant to, for example, smoothly play back a video that's still being recorded if it's been up and running for more than a day or two without a restart. Restart it, and it works fine.

[agidius]

I reboot when it is "sluggish" (about once a week)
but sometimes the system usage goes nuts.

I can have the task manager open and "system idle" has 99%
then if I try to open something simple (I usually open Notepad as a test) that new process will take 99% for over 5 mins until it finally opens.
no other process running at the time.
no downloads on the webserver

press reset and all is well.
opening the start menu to choose "restart" takes more than 90 seconds.
and this is on a athlon64 3200+

[pastro]

I reboot when it is "sluggish" (about once a week)
but sometimes the system usage goes nuts.

I can have the task manager open and "system idle" has 99%
then if I try to open something simple (I usually open Notepad as a test) that new process will take 99% for over 5 mins until it finally opens.
no other process running at the time.
no downloads on the webserver

press reset and all is well.
opening the start menu to choose "restart" takes more than 90 seconds.
and this is on a athlon64 3200+

I used to get behavior like that when I would have drives mounted that were no longer present on the network. Disconnecting them would usually fix the trouble. The other thing that always caused lousy performance is windows defender.

[tipstir]

PageFile set it to the max: 3072/4096 for 1GB System
PageFile set it to the max: 4096/4096 for 2GB System

When the system runs out of RAM then the swapping to HDD kicks in. I have the same problem that you all have. Even with O&O CleaverCache running I can recover and make the system not so sluggish.

[Cahill84]

II can have the task manager open and "system idle" has 99% then if I try to open something simple (I usually open Notepad as a test) that new process will take 99% for over 5 mins until it finally opens.
no other process running at the time.

This pretty well describes the problem that I have. If I type most of my papers up at the University and just use GB-pvr then it responds horribly. To the extent that I could go cook dinner return and it will finally load. Not to mention taking forever between screens like going into the TV guide, live tv, etc. Once I start watching it's typically good, but I have to wait a really long time to get it there. I haven't gotten a chance to monitor the memory usage to see if I have a leak or not, but it's on my list of things to do. I just want to concur that I have similar problems.

-Anthony

Side note- Is it possible to get information from GB-PVR concerning an upcoming recording? I just learned about adding a set time to reboot using the shutdown -r -t 300 feature. That way if I was typing and that came up all I had to do was open a cmd prompt and abort it. Now I just need to confirm that there's not going to be a recording when I schedule it. So using the whole at command to schedule it at say 3:00. Generally that would be a safe time, but I'd hate to assume that there might not be some marathon that I've set to record the entire season and so GB-PVR picks it up. The batch file of course would be unable to compensate.

[pastro]

You could get info about pending recordings from rss. If you wrote a program you could use the dynamic feeds, if you wanted to just parse a text file with all the pending recordings you could use the static feeds and generate a file with all the pending recordings in it. If you update the RSS after and epg update, I would think that would get all the new scheduled recordings.

[tipstir]

This pretty well describes the problem that I have. If I type most of my papers up at the University and just use GB-pvr then it responds horribly. To the extent that I could go cook dinner return and it will finally load. Not to mention taking forever between screens like going into the TV guide, live tv, etc. Once I start watching it's typically good, but I have to wait a really long time to get it there. I haven't gotten a chance to monitor the memory usage to see if I have a leak or not, but it's on my list of things to do. I just want to concur that I have similar problems.

-Anthony

Side note- Is it possible to get information from GB-PVR concerning an upcoming recording? I just learned about adding a set time to reboot using the shutdown -r -t 300 feature. That way if I was typing and that came up all I had to do was open a cmd prompt and abort it. Now I just need to confirm that there's not going to be a recording when I schedule it. So using the whole at command to schedule it at say 3:00. Generally that would be a safe time, but I'd hate to assume that there might not be some marathon that I've set to record the entire season and so GB-PVR picks it up. The batch file of course would be unable to compensate.

I've been monitoring the memory and increased the page file. My 1GB I always had 600 to 700MB free with GBPVR and 3 MVPs now it dropped to 200MB or even less. Then the system slows down. I know to fix this would be to increase the RAM to 2GB. But looks like some sort of memory leaking is going on. 3 MVP GBPVR.exe are using a lot of RAM and they're not being used. Sometimes I go back to 600MB and sometimes it 128MB So it now 331MB free.

I don't know what happen? If I stop GBPvR Recording Service memory goes back up to 800MB free.