[vdr] Re: VDR 1.3.15 gets unusable slow after a short time

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

post wrote:
> 
> I have no idea, what is going on here. This is my system:
> 
> development-sources-2.6.8.1 (also tried 2.6.9 and 2.6.10_rc1) / Gentoo Linux
> - selected special kernel options:
> - use register arguments
> - message signaled interrupts (MSI and MSI-X)
> - use 4kb for kernel stacks instead of 8 kb
> 
> dvb-kernel that comes with kernel sources (also tried actual CVS)
> NPTL enabled
> glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1
> gcc-3.3.4-r1
> one Hauppauge WinTV Nexus-S + CI-Slot-Adapter 545
> one TechniSat SkyStar2 (also uses stv0299)
> one Hauppauge WinTV analog-card
> 
> Until now, I only installed vdr 1.3.15 (with a selfadapted vdr-1.3.14-r3
> ebuild from gentoo.de) with the remote-plugin.
> 
> When I start vdr, everything seems to be working fine. No abnormal messages
> in /var/log/messages and no errors.
> 
> After some time has passed, vdr seems to go to sleep. It still gives the
> live-signal on the FF output, but it does not react on remote-keypresses.
> In that state vdr is still running, and absolutely no error messages or
> abnormalities in /var/log/messages.
> 
> I just did the test: Pressing the MENU button, and waiting. Nothing
> happens, looks like a complete ignore, live-signal still running on the FF
> output. Finally the menu-screen comes up, about 5 MINUTES after the menu
> key was pressed.
> 
> What could be the problem?
> 
> After a restart of vdr everything seems to be normal, but then suddently
> that behaviour kicks in without further notice. All the rest on that
> machine is running normally, I also have xorg-x11 + kde 3.3.1 installed,
> and actually I am watching the live-signal on my monitor using kvdr.

Could be the old NPTL problem.

Try

  export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1

before running VDR.

Klaus