On 6/14/05, Eric Hattemer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > let's call it "nice -n -15" to be perfectly clear. But honestly, I
got it, thanks. > Like I said, I never got around to ionice, but it looks like a great > (and well overdue) concept. It looked like 2.6.11.11 had an option for > ionice, and I compiled it in, but I don't see it now, so maybe not. I > don't have an ionice binary, so I assume that this version is built into > the nice syscall. Maybe I just forgot what I saw. It might be related > to cfq. Anyway, look at http://kerneltrap.org/node/4406/print . You > might consider changing the io scheduler http://kerneltrap.org/node/3851 . I will do some rearch on that when I have time. > Should be able to upgrade qt using yum, right? Should only take a few > minutes, I'd figure. Then you can configure the mythtv sound the way > you want it and feel comfortable that nothing has to do with some weird > way that the atrpms stuff was compiled. I did tried(urpmi, not yum) and found out I needed some other dep for the upgrade, and don't want to break other stuff, oh.. forgot to mention that I got a PVR500 about two weeks ago, Mandrake 9.2 freezed when loading udev(I think that was it), so I decided to load new dist. Picked fedora basically I am getting lazy. Well, with fedora, I only can init one tuner on pvr500 and system crash(rebooted) after a few minutes, complain about some address at 0x44, well I tired many versions of ivtv, .2, .3.2, .3.4 and also tried daily release on .3.5, gave up right before .3.6, it's still under devel I know they trying to get it working, so I will let the PVR500 collect some dust on my desk first. Anyway, I can say I am still happy with a pvr350 on the master and a pvr250 on the slave. > That's pretty hardcore. You're right that it won't matter on the cpu, > but it will matter on the disk. All my normal recordings are 2200, and > my cartoons and talk shows are 800 or so. If you check top, or gkrellm, > is your cpu usage iowait or user? You might just be overloading the > hard drive. The main problem I always had with the compiling was that > even at nice -19, it still brutalizes the hard drive, and things start > to skip. That's why I was always excited about ionice. However, he > specifically says that its a "proof of concept", so I suspect its not I will nice things at different level next time to see how they changes. I just tried to watch tv at 2200, I can see blocks, I can tell the most when switching to a channel with some noise/snow, so putting it back to 4500 made me happy. Thanks again
