How often do you reboot your server?

[rob.sfo]

I've got a server w/ 2 PVR-500's and a firewire HD box setup, serving one front end (for now). I've noticed that over time, usability degrades to the point that things stop responding. More often than not, it's the firewire cable-box setup that fails somehow. For instance, today, I could not change the channel to a channel served by the cable-box. PVR-500 channels worked fine.

A reboot of the server always clears it up. Restarting the SageTV service doesn't accomplish anything.

Is this normal behavior? Should I set up a standard server roboot cycle?

Sorry to be so vague...I'm sure there's some specific issue that could be resolved without a reboot, but I haven't been able to find it so far.

Thanks for any tips or ideas you might have.

[stanger89]

Not sure about tips, but my server's been up just under 40 days (since I installed my PVR 500).

[Kanati]

I've gone 45-50 days without a reboot I think. Just over a week now since I've installed v3 though.

[Lester Jacobs]

I usuallly reboot my server every 50 days or so. However the reboots are not due to degradation in system performance but simply occur because I've applied Windows updates, installed a new driver or updated Sage. One or more of these actions usually requires a reboot on my part.

[mikejaner]

Me too, aside from updates, or problems in beta versions, I don't reboot it at all.

[dagar]

I only have to restart for the patches and the MVP service needs restarting sometimes (which isn't a reboot). It was that way with XP Pro and now Win2k3

[rob.sfo]

Thanks for the feedback. Time to start troubleshooting.

[Ceger]

I find that I need to restart SageTV itself every so often due to it just hanging for no reason with 100% CPU utilization. Even when it works I, it does weird things.


I use a PVR500 for recording, thus it has hardware encoding. If I run Sage and watch the Task Manager monitors, it runs fie with little to no utilization, but move the mouse around, or have Sage in a window and have the mouse move over something on the screen that gives a tool tip, and CPU utilization jumps to over 75% for a second or two.

It seems that SageTV itself uses alot of utilization when running, and this should not be. It should be a relatively thin program, especially if you are not using Intelligent Recording and such. Is this something that is being targeted for the next version? To make it thinner, so to speak?

Ceger