[vdr] Re: Watchdog expires while removing of recordings ?

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Martin Hoffmann wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> i'm using VDR0.97 and since i have a an encoding process running in the background (with nice -n 10 - so it should NOT take too much CPU time on an Athlon XP 1800) VDR often quits with "watchdog expired" while removing of recorded files.
> Now i have set the watchdog to 100 seconds and it seems to be better ...
> 
> I think i don't quite understand this: Is VDR triggering a rm *.vdr command and waits until it returns ? And if this doesn't happen until the amount of seconds the watchdog is set to it quits ? Right ?

That's correct.

> Couldn't VDR rm 001.vdr and 002.vdr and so on separately? Sometimes deleting recordings with several 00*.vdr files can take a long time to be deleted. On ext2 fs at least.

The removing could be done in a separate thread, but that has yet to be implemented...

> On the other hand i don't want to set the watchdog timer on 5 minutes or so, because then the reloading will take too long in case of a crash !?
> What about a dynamic system of watchdogs ? So in case VDR wants to delete something he would signal RUNVDR (e.g. creating a dummy file) that he needs more time and a second watchdog value (e.g. 5 minutes) would be used ?

Let's not make things more complicated than necessary.
Removing files in a separate thread IMHO is the way to go.

Klaus
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