Checking the recordings folder, it does appear to clean the output files up. Interesting! I would have thought myth would have terminated mythcommflag as soon as the file was deleted for efficiency.
Cheers though, Dave On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 14:31:16 +0000, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Whyte wrote: > > >I just noticed that 2 mythcommflag processes are running and sucking > >up 33% of my CPU each even though the recordings I did tonight have > >been deleted (I only delayed watching them by a few minutes). I > >checked mythweb and there are no jobs running, and no recordings are > >marked as being editted. > > > >This leaves me with a couple of questions: > >1) Will the process end eventually? > >2) If so, when? If I have deleted the file, what is it scanning? > > > >Cheers, > >Dave > > > > > An interesting design feature of (most?) unixy filesystems is that when > you delete a file it is removed from the directory listing but the > actual filespace isn't reclaimed until all the programs using it close > their filehandles. > > Try running a wc on a huge file. > then do it again, in the background, but this time delete the file as > soon as wc starts. > Then check the disk free space with df > Then when the wc finishes, check the count is the same and that df shows > the space is now free. > > So in your case the transcode is still running on the original file but > you won't get the space back until it exits. > Where it's writing I don't know (I don't transcode) and whether the > output will be cleaned up I don't know either. > > David > > -- GMAIL is 'da bomb baby....YEAH I have GMail invites, if you want one, email me direct.
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