Yes! I had ivtv_debug=1 in modprobe.conf. I've changed it to 0 and now
everything is a lot quieter.
Thanks!
John Harvey wrote:
Have you got debugging turned on in the driver? That can cause a lot of
activity writing the messages file.
JOhn
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Sent: 11 June 2005 02:09
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Subject: Re: [ivtv-devel] Excessive disk activity with PVR-350 TV-out
Carl Page wrote:
Hi,
After much pain and anguish, I finally have X working on TV-out through
my PVR-350. :)
However, for some time, since I first managed to copy video0 to video16
and see some fuzzy TV being output from my PVR-350, I've noticed that
after two-three minutes of TV output, my hard-disk starts going crazy.
When I enable TV-out, it's fine for a few minutes, then I hear the disk
start up and looking at gkrellm I see the disk throughput go through the
roof. It stays like that until I disable TV-out.
The same thing is happening when I use X through the PVR's TV-out. I
start X windows and after a few minutes, the hard disk starts thrashing.
My system is an AMD Athlon64 3000+, running FC3. The hard-disk is a new
160Gb Seagate Barrucade 7. I see no reason why it should need to go
near the disk when all it's doing is displaying a TV picture.
Any thoughts people?
If you have a recent(ish) kernel, you can use part of laptop mode to see
what is
using the disk. Read /usr/src/linux/Documentation/laptop-mode.txt and
look for
block_dump. There's a way to get the kernel to report all disk read and
write
operations. That'll at least tell you what process is doing it or help you
narrow things down a little hopefully.
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