excessive HDD access with tv database

[sleepycol]

Hi,

Anyone experiencing heavy hard drive usage when just browsing music or the TV guide? - even when you just leave the pc alone, ie no mouse/keyboard inputs and with nothing playing. Also happens in video, when im playing a video my hard drive light come son solid and then just drops to steady access you would expect from playing a video. It never used to do this with earlier SVNs (sometime before 16020 as this is when I first noticed it). It does it for 5 - 10 mins and then stops. Any idea what could cause this in mediaportal? Some background database re-organisation?

I use the standard tv engine thats included with media portal. I did a little test and I think the hard drive access is caused by the TV guide being updated. See log extract below. All I did was run mediaportal. I left it on the main menu without pressing anything. A few seconds after mp loaded hard drive access started. This seems to coincide with the tv guide being updated. I closed media portal a few seconds after the hard drive access started but the hard drive access continued for quite some time after mp closed (minutes not seconds). Media portal was still active in task manager during this time. Is it possible the radio update to tv guide has caused this?

Cheers,
Colin

007-09-30 16:38:06.812500 [Info.][6]: update dvbt channel:ITV1
2007-09-30 16:38:06.890625 [Info.][6]: DVBGraph: grab epg for ITV1
2007-09-30 16:39:27.171875 [Info.][WebEPGGrabber thread]: WebEPGGrabber.Run: grabber finished:30/09/2007 16:39:27
2007-09-30 16:39:27.671875 [Info.][14]: detected new tvguide ->import new tvguide
2007-09-30 16:39:28.203125 [Info.][14]: xmltv import C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\xmltv\tvguide.xml
2007-09-30 16:39:29.968750 [Info.][14]: SQLiteClient: Closing database: TVDatabaseV21.db3
2007-09-30 16:39:34.968750 [Info.][14]: Current timezone:GMT Standard Time
2007-09-30 16:39:34.968750 [Info.][14]: Offset with UTC 00:00 DaylightSavings:True
2007-09-30 16:39:37.140625 [Info.][6]: epg-grab: EPG ready...
2007-09-30 16:39:42.156250 [Info.][6]: epg-grab: EPG parsing...
2007-09-30 16:39:46.843750 [Info.][7]: open radiodatabase
2007-09-30 16:39:46.968750 [Info.][7]: Radio database opened
2007-09-30 16:40:22.921875 [Info.][MPMain]: Main: Exit requested

[Rudi99]

same problem here, i try the new RC3 this evening, if the problem persists...

[sleepycol]

I'm using RC3 with latest SVN (as of 19/10/07) and the hard drive access is crazy. It was continuosly access the hard drive for 10 mins after I shut media portal. I do not ve a slow machine its got an Intel E6300 with 1gb mem and decent hard drives so not system related.

It looks like its something to do with the TV database? See log extract below. Is there something I can do about the tV database?

2007-10-19 22:17:55.238500 [Info.][19]: SQLiteClient: Closing database:
2007-10-19 22:18:00.238500 [Info.][19]: SQLiteClient: query returned ERROR commit
2007-10-19 22:18:00.238500 [Info.][19]: SQLiteClient: cmd:sqlite3_finalize err:ERROR detailed:cannot commit - no transaction is active query:commit
2007-10-19 22:18:00.238500 [Info.][19]: tvdatabase commit failed exception errQLiteClient: cmd:sqlite3_finalize err:ERROR detailed:cannot commit - no transaction is active query:commit
2007-10-19 22:18:00.238500 [Info.][19]: opening tvdatabase
2007-10-19 22:18:00.347875 [Info.][19]: tvdatabase opened
2007-10-19 22:18:00.347875 [Info.][19]: import done
2007-10-19 22:18:00.347875 [Info.][2]: SQLiteClient: Closing database: TVDatabaseV21.db3
2007-10-19 22:18:00.347875 [Info.][2]: SQLiteClient: Closing database: FolderDatabase3.db3
2007-10-19 22:18:00.347875 [Info.][2]: GUITVCropManager: Stopped
2007-10-19 22:18:00.347875 [Info.][2]: SQLiteClient: Closing database:
2007-10-19 22:18:00.347875 [Info.][2]: SQLiteClient: Closing database: MusicDatabaseV10.db3
2007-10-19 22:18:00.363500 [Info.][2]: SQLiteClient: Closing database: ProgramDatabaseV4.db3

[sleepycol]

Anyone else have this problem?

[blackheart42]

Originally Posted by sleepycol

Anyone else have this problem?

I'm seeing something similar.

Access to the TV database seems much more sluggish with RC3 than with RC2 or earlier versions and I have noticed that sometimes when I close MP it takes a while for the process to disappear from the task list, even though the GUI disappears immediately. The delay seems to be due to MP importing new TV Guide data.

Are you seeing anything like the issues discussed in these threads?

http://forum.team-mediaportal.com/pr...se-t30095.html

http://forum.team-mediaportal.com/0_...ow-t30042.html

Thanks,
Blackheart