Anyone else see this? Is there a way to fix this?

I was watching a basketball game this weekend. I knew that my HDD is about full, but there was plenty of shows ready to get deleted so no problem. But I noticed that LiveTV stops dead in it's tracks and the CPU pegs when deleting files. Quite distracting when watching a fast moving game. (This happens also when deleting files from the Recordings menu.)

My question is this. Can the deleting of expired recordings happen 'nicer', perhaps earlier so as to not interfear with LiveTV? Also manual delete can be 'nicer' as well so as to not 'freeze' the front end. That or a pop-up window with a 'please wait' message so you know that the box didn't freeze up would make it a bit more user friendly.

Somewhere in the options theres something about doing a "slow delete"
, might be worth trying?

It might be a bit challenging to do now, but XFS is a lot quicker for deleting files than ext3.

It's in the backend setup, and it helps tremendously.
Unfortunately, the XFS vs ext3 filesystem issue is convoluted by the LVM writeup on the wiki. For LVM, they recommend ext3, which is slow at deleting. I don't know which is right/wrong, but if you follow the writeup (like I did), you're stuck witih ext3.

The ext3 recommendation was because you can resize it and I had good examples available. You can also do this with jfs and it's nearly as fast at deleting, which may make it a better choice on the whole than xfs.

Thanks for the slow delete suggestion, but I can't seem to find it. Can you point me in the direction? I looked under Utils/Setup/Playback & General. Also the BE General. I'm using R5D1 btw.

It's in mythtv-setup, under General on about the 4th ot 5th page.

I'm still not finding it. Here's what I'm doing.

<Alt> 2 to stop the backend
<Alt> S to get to mythtv-setup
1. General> Page 1 is 'Host Address'
>Page 2 'Host-Specific Backend Setup'
>Page 3 'Global Backend Setup' (This has the Master Backend Override & Follow symbolic links options)
>Page 4 'Shutdown/Wakeup'
>Page 5 'WakeOnLan'
>Page 6 'Job Queue'
>Page 7 'Job Q Global'
>Page 8 'Job commands'
>Exit

Perhaps it wasn't available until Myth .20?

In 0.20 it's on the 2nd General page, where you set "Directory to hold recordings". It's called "Delete files slowly". (from my R5D1 + 0.20 install)
Don't know about prior versions...

Duh-oh! Sorry, that's new in 0.20...

OK, well I'm cancelling that eye doctor appointment...

Thanks though, nice to see that this was addressed and it gives me one more reason to take the jump to Five-0