Sage Hangs then recovers. ideas?

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Hi There,

I've been having a problem for weeks that is really, really, really annoying.

Sage records fine.
Sage plays fine.

I've spent alot of time on my setup and the thought of a harddrive wipe & reinstall makes me sick.

-After watching a recorded show I tell sage to "Delete Now"
-sage pops up a "Are you sure you want to delete"
-After selecting "YES" sage:
-sometimes hangs for 20-30 seconds.
or
-sometimes it's fine.
-When it does hang, as you're moving the mouse around it will still highlight "YES" or "NO" even though you've already choosen "YES" and it's working on something
-If you click again (on "YES" or "No) then when sage returns from it's 30 second vacation it will then process your second click on whatever screen is up next.

-Sometimes after clicking "YES" it will come back after 15-20 seconds and the show will remain in SageRecordings (not deleted.)

It's really very frustrating.

I see the same behaivor using the MediaMVP client on a seperate Client Installation on the server.

No other applications running and processor usage during the freeze seems normal.

I thought it may be due to a network drive used to record to or maybe a user/password issue but I removed this drive from the setup and I have the same issue using only drives local to the server.

What could sage be doing for 20-30 seconds???

Ideas to try anyone?

My sage server:
2.4GHz, P4, 1GB ram
PVR250
PVRUSB2
sage runs as a service
using sage webserver
using mediamvp client
using maldude2 stv

Network Encoder
PVR-150-low profile
running full sagetv install as network encoder and client.

all is XP pro & UNC paths for video directories

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bump.

[backsix]

OK, I think this is caused by a network encoder being turned off.

I thought sage was robust enought to cope with the loss of an encoder but on my setup it seems to cause hangs for 20-30 seconds.