Re: Help: VDR recording feature failed due to buffer overflow

[Carsten Koch <Carsten.Koch@icem.de>]

Mace Gael wrote:
...
>         Sep 19 10:40:08 wnt-umbriel vdr[911]: recording to
> '/video/@3sat/2000-09-19.10:38.99.99.rec/001.vdr'
>         Sep 19 10:40:09 wnt-umbriel kernel: record buffer full
>         Sep 19 10:40:09 wnt-umbriel last message repeated 10 times
>         Sep 19 10:40:09 wnt-umbriel kernel: buffer overflow
>         Sep 19 10:40:09 wnt-umbriel kernel: record buffer full
>         Sep 19 10:40:09 wnt-umbriel last message repeated 6 times
>         Sep 19 10:40:09 wnt-umbriel kernel: buffer overflow
> 
> Could someone tell me what's happened and what I shall do in order to avoid
> this problem?

it looks like you cannot get the data out to hard disk as fast
as they come in from the DVB card.

I had a similar problem and it turned out that 32-bit I/O and
DMA was not enabled for my hard disks. See "man hdparm".

Another possible cause may be that your system is simply too
busy with other things. You can use "osview" or "top" to find
that out.

Carsten.