SageTV playback having 1 min pauses

[lovingHDTV]

Recently I've been experiencing large playback pauses on my client box. I've monitored the client and there is not system issues there that I can find. However, on the server I've noticed that with each pause there is significant disk activity and I can see that memory is being paged in and out.

I also noticed that the size of the SageTV.exe process changes. It started at 67MB, then went up to 90MB, then back down to 60MB. This all happened during playback, and each time the size changed playback hung. Some of the hangs were long enough that the client thought it disconnected and I had to restart the show.

I looked at the log file Sage creates in the SageTV directory and it appears that it is purging partial recordings every 5 minutes. This is when it appears to hang the most often. Is it expected to do this purging every 5 minutes?

I've included some of the log file here:

Mon 6/27 20:34:29.655 Seeker in AUTOMATIC mode nextRecord=A[3300934,3300883,"The Inside",10709@0629.20:00,60] nextTTA=170730346
Mon 6/27 20:34:29.656 newRecord=null
Mon 6/27 20:34:29.657 NOTHING TO RECORD FOR NOW...
Mon 6/27 20:34:29.660 VF processing job null nPlayin=false
Mon 6/27 20:34:29.661 VF thread is now waiting for 0:00:00.000
Mon 6/27 20:34:29.843 Seeker clearing unwanted and partial files...
Mon 6/27 20:34:29.848 Seeker waiting for 2843 mins.
Mon 6/27 20:34:29.881 Received command of:NOOP from Socket[addr=/192.168.15.104,port=1282,localport=42024]
Mon 6/27 20:34:29.903 Received command of:NOOP from Socket[addr=/192.168.15.104,port=1284,localport=42024]
Mon 6/27 20:34:34.847 Received command of:NOOP from Socket[addr=/192.168.15.104,port=1282,localport=42024]
Mon 6/27 20:34:34.867 Received command of:NOOP from Socket[addr=/192.168.15.104,port=1284,localport=42024]
Mon 6/27 20:34:37.653 PM currState=0 wakeupTime=Wed 6/29/2005 19:58:00.000
...
a bunch of NOOPs
...

Mon 6/27 20:39:29.852 Seeker awoken
Mon 6/27 20:39:32.057 MARK 1 currRecord=null enc=Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Capture clients=[]
Mon 6/27 20:39:32.058 Seeker in AUTOMATIC mode nextRecord=A[3300934,3300883,"The Inside",10709@0629.20:00,60] nextTTA=170427943
Mon 6/27 20:39:32.059 newRecord=null
Mon 6/27 20:39:32.059 NOTHING TO RECORD FOR NOW...
Mon 6/27 20:39:32.064 VF processing job null nPlayin=false
Mon 6/27 20:39:32.065 VF thread is now waiting for 0:00:00.000
Mon 6/27 20:39:34.072 Received command of:NOOP from Socket[addr=/192.168.15.104,port=1284,localport=42024]
Mon 6/27 20:39:36.826 Received command of:NOOP from Socket[addr=/192.168.15.104,port=1282,localport=42024]
Mon 6/27 20:39:36.827 Seeker clearing unwanted and partial files...
Mon 6/27 20:39:36.832 Seeker waiting for 2837 mins.