GBPVR locks up in RecordingFactory.loadSchedule(); getValue cached value: /settings

[ralphy]

GBPVR becomes unresponsive when I test my plugin (an LCD external display handler), and I need to ctrl-atl-del to end the GBPVR process to regain control. The end of the logs show:

Code:

2007-10-25 07:31:34.468    VERBOSE    [1]    Initializing skin helper for: .\skin\Blue\osd\skin.xml
2007-10-25 07:31:34.718    VERBOSE    [1]    getValue cached value: /settings/EPGProcessingMode : NORMAL
2007-10-25 07:31:34.718    VERBOSE    [1]    getValue cached value: /settings/EPGProcessingMode : NORMAL
2007-10-25 07:31:34.812    VERBOSE    [6]    RecordingFactory.loadSchedule()
2007-10-25 07:31:34.812    VERBOSE    [6]    getValue cached value: /settings/AutoRemoveMissingRecordings : false
2007-10-25 07:31:36.328    VERBOSE    [6]    RecordingFactory.loadSchedule()
2007-10-25 07:31:36.328    VERBOSE    [6]    getValue cached value: /settings/AutoRemoveMissingRecordings : false
2007-10-25 07:31:38.328    VERBOSE    [6]    RecordingFactory.loadSchedule()
2007-10-25 07:31:38.328    VERBOSE    [6]    getValue cached value: /settings/AutoRemoveMissingRecordings : false
2007-10-25 07:31:40.328    VERBOSE    [6]    RecordingFactory.loadSchedule()
2007-10-25 07:31:40.328    VERBOSE    [6]    getValue cached value: /settings/AutoRemoveMissingRecordings : false
2007-10-25 07:31:42.343    VERBOSE    [6]    RecordingFactory.loadSchedule()
2007-10-25 07:31:42.343    VERBOSE    [6]    getValue cached value: /settings/AutoRemoveMissingRecordings : false
2007-10-25 07:31:44.343    VERBOSE    [6]    RecordingFactory.loadSchedule()
2007-10-25 07:31:44.343    VERBOSE    [6]    getValue cached value: /settings/AutoRemoveMissingRecordings : false
2007-10-25 07:31:46.343    VERBOSE    [6]    RecordingFactory.loadSchedule()
2007-10-25 07:31:46.343    VERBOSE    [6]    getValue cached value: /settings/AutoRemoveMissingRecordings : false
2007-10-25 07:31:48.359    VERBOSE    [6]    RecordingFactory.loadSchedule()
2007-10-25 07:31:48.359    VERBOSE    [6]    getValue cached value: /settings/AutoRemoveMissingRecordings : false
2007-10-25 07:31:50.359    VERBOSE    [6]    RecordingFactory.loadSchedule()
2007-10-25 07:31:50.359    VERBOSE    [6]    getValue cached value: /settings/AutoRemoveMissingRecordings : false

Any clues as to what I might be doing to create this problem? or how to solve?

[ralphy]

I was using a timer to fire off the following code every 2 seconds, but for some reason, the timer events got backed up, and I think, tried to execute the following code several times, all at once

Code:

IScheduleHelper iSH = GBPVR.Backend.Common.ScheduleHelper.getInstance();
IList myScheduledRecordings = iSH.LoadRecordingSchedule();

I think I fixed the problem using timer.autoreset=false; and reenabling the timer once the code is completed.

I've often wondered whether a timer is best to fire off DoWork() at regular intervals, or whether its better to

Code:

while (true)
{
  DoWork();
  thread.sleep(1000);
}

[sub]

Just so you know...

LoadRecordingSchedule() can take a very long time on some setups, and can be quite disk intensive since it checks the recordings exist on disk as it loads them. Some people have like literally 3000 recordings, stored on slow access network drives, so it can take 5 or so seconds to load the recording list. This sort of worst case but you get the idea...

It'd also stop anyones machine from going to standby/hibernate.

That said, I cant really suggest an alternative for what you're trying to achieve.