Stefan Lucke wrote:

hi,

on one of my systems tuning thread consumes all cpu when playing a recording (paused). On this system I cannot get EPG. bodega3b video # ll vdr-conf/ total 36 -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1414 Apr 14 18:17 ca.conf -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5708 Apr 21 19:37 channels.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Apr 21 19:39 epg.data -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 196 Apr 14 18:19 keymacros.conf -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4776 Apr 14 18:20 remote.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2404 Apr 21 21:59 setup.conf -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1930 Apr 14 18:23 sources.conf -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 483 Apr 14 18:24 svdrphosts.conf drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 128 Apr 17 17:57 themes -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Apr 21 18:36 timers.conf bodega3b video #

In syslog I see the following messages (VideoOut messages between frontend messages removed.):

Apr 22 08:27:50 bodega3b vdr: [9349] [VideoOut]: 720x576 [0,0 720x576] -> 720x576 [90,0 540x576] Apr 22 08:27:55 bodega3b vdr: [9349] [VideoOut]: 720x576 [0,0 720x576] -> 720x576 [90,0 540x576] Apr 22 08:27:59 bodega3b vdr: [9349] [VideoOut]: 720x576 [0,0 720x576] -> 720x576 [90,0 540x576] Apr 22 08:28:03 bodega3b vdr: [9349] [VideoOut]: 720x576 [0,0 720x576] -> 720x576 [90,0 540x576] Apr 22 08:28:07 bodega3b vdr: [9349] [VideoOut]: 720x576 [0,0 720x576] -> 720x576 [90,0 540x576] Apr 22 08:28:07 bodega3b vdr: [9347] frontend 0 timed out while tuning to channel 1, tp 522 Apr 22 08:28:28 bodega3b vdr: [9347] frontend 0 timed out while tuning to channel 2, tp 570 Apr 22 08:28:49 bodega3b vdr: [9347] frontend 0 timed out while tuning to channel 7, tp 658 Apr 22 08:29:10 bodega3b vdr: [9347] frontend 0 timed out while tuning to channel 20, tp 754 Apr 22 08:29:31 bodega3b vdr: [9347] frontend 0 timed out while tuning to channel 28, tp 778 Apr 22 08:29:52 bodega3b vdr: [9347] frontend 0 timed out while tuning to channel 5, tp 177 Apr 22 08:30:13 bodega3b vdr: [9347] frontend 0 timed out while tuning to channel 8, tp 191 Apr 22 08:30:22 bodega3b vdr: [9347] ERROR: frontend 0: Value too large for defined data type Apr 22 08:30:34 bodega3b vdr: [9347] frontend 0 timed out while tuning to channel 11, tp 506 Apr 22 08:30:36 bodega3b vdr: [9349] [VideoOut]: 720x576 [0,0 720x576] -> 720x576 [90,0 540x576]

top - 08:33:29 up 24 min, 3 users, load average: 1.01, 1.00, 0.77 Tasks: 66 total, 3 running, 63 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 39.3% us, 60.7% sy, 0.0% ni, 0.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si Mem: 1035396k total, 71312k used, 964084k free, 6676k buffers Swap: 1060280k total, 0k used, 1060280k free, 33384k cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 9347 root 25 0 63964 13m 3796 R 96.2 1.3 19:44.01 vdr 9355 root 15 0 63964 13m 3796 S 3.3 1.3 0:42.92 vdr 9349 root 15 0 63964 13m 3796 S 0.3 1.3 0:03.65 vdr

Sometimes switching channles with channel-up failes too (black screen). Channel-down, channel-up resolves this.

I just disconnected the sat cable from my VDR and got

Apr 22 13:55:55 video vdr: [4875] frontend 0 lost lock on channel 2, tp 212480 Apr 22 13:55:57 video vdr: [4875] frontend 0 timed out while tuning to channel 2, tp 212480

but the tuning thread didn't use any excessive CPU power. Actually it was at 0.0% before and after the disconnect.

So I'm afraid I don't know what the problem is on your machine.

Klaus