Hic-ups every 30 secs

[sub]

OK, who has one of these machines with the problems, and a decent internet speed, and I can briefly log into for five minutes to check a few things out? I'd need you to be present for the a few minutes to check a couple of things I can easily do remotely.

If you can help, send me a PM.

[stefan]

If you haven't gotten anyone else's help by the time I get my internet connection back (who knows when; they said the week before Christmas, but now it's "delayed") I'll be glad to help. Most probably you've already received the help elsewhere by then, though.

That said, I haven't checked the CPU cycles, only the "hiccups", and I timed them to exactly 30 seconds. I have not (yet) tried to set the logging level to info.

[ram4x4nut]

Sub, I could proabaly let you into one of my GBPVR servers. What message service can I PM you on? We can chat and we'll work on getting you into my system.

[sub]

Cheers, I'll send you a PM via the message board's message system.

[Torque]

Well, I've held off offering up my system for a test because the damn thing isn't having the 30sec hiccup issue anymore (i guess that's a good thing for me, bad for troubleshoot)... Kinda makes me wonder if there was just something wierd in the EPG that all of us that had/have the issue got for a while. I usually use timeshift more on the weekends, because the weekdays are spent watching recordings rather than live or timeshifted TV. So I'll post back this weekend if it's happening again :confused:

Sub, did you and Ram4x4nut get together and find anything?

[sub]

We did get together, but no, I couldnt find anything that could cause it.

[ram4x4nut]

The good thing is that sub was able to see the 30 second spikes in live tv timeshift. Maybe something will come to him as to what's happening and what we can do to eliminate it. I'd love to use timeshift but the way it is right now I can't.

[capone]

Since this seems to happen while watching TS and not viewing a recording, the obvious difference is you are generating a file and reading it at the same time.

One thing to test somehow would be a similar activity. I don't know what this may be, but it needs to be an activity where you are constantly reading a file as it writes. I don't think you can view a avi file while it is being reencoded, but what would be one (but would already be processor intensive, so you may not notice a spike).

The best I can think of is watching a buffered file like a QT movie preview, since it is spooling/buffering while you view. If you see the same spikes (maybe it won't hiccup, since it takes less processing than TS viewing), then there is some system activity that is interested in this particular activity, and it's not a GB viewing issue inparticular.

[stefan]

It does *not* happen when I watch i recording that is still recording, though, so that theory does not hold for my setup.

[capone]

I think I remember sub saying it's a different activity to watch TS than it was to watch a recording in progress...one would assume the difference would be there. Maybe not so much something GB does wrong, but the system treats differently.