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4961	housekeeping wantToRun() too unreliable for mythfilldatabase on non-continously running master backends	stefan.becker@…	Isaac Richards	"wantToRun() uses a randomizing formula so that not every invocation that falls into the valid window returns TRUE and therefore triggers the job. The formula makes sure that the chances of returning TRUE are getting higher and higher the closer the time approaches the end of the valid window. The housekeeping jobs are checked roughly every 5 minutes. Therefore thos approach works great when the backend is running continously.

But if the machine is set up only to wake up for recordings & mythfilldatabase runs and has a short idle shutdown period it is very likely that wantToRun() never has a chance to return TRUE. Therefore it can happen very easily that mythfilldatabase is not executed even if the machine was programmed to specifically wake up during the valid window and the last run was long enough ago."	enhancement	closed	minor	unknown	mythtv	0.21-fixes	low	fixed	mythfilldatabase		0