[EMAIL PROTECTED] <> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running myth 0.18 release version on a 2.6.12.1 kernel. My card is > HD3000 HDTV tuner card. I've one 180GB hard drive in my setup, > standard knoppix myth partition. /, /root, /cache and /myth , are all > ext 3. > > Whenever the tuner is recording a program, and I try to copy a large > file, I get the following error message in the backend logs. > > 2005-07-06 16:07:00.217 IOBOUND - blocking in > ThreadedFileWriter::Write() > 2005-07-06 16:07:05.419 IOBOUND - blocking in > ThreadedFileWriter::Write() > 2005-07-06 16:07:09.360 IOBOUND - blocking in > ThreadedFileWriter::Write() > 2005-07-06 16:07:17.400 IOBOUND - blocking in > ThreadedFileWriter::Write() > 2005-07-06 16:07:26.623 IOBOUND - blocking in > ThreadedFileWriter::Write() > 2005-07-06 16:07:31.437 IOBOUND - blocking in > ThreadedFileWriter::Write() > > If I stop the copy, the message will also stop. >
One thing you may want to try is to change the io scheduler to cfq ( elevator=cfq argument to kernel at boot ) That should allow each program to get equal access to the disk so one one is starved I think cfq is the default for fedora. These 2 links may be of intrest: http://lwn.net/Articles/22429/ http://www.redhat.com/magazine/008jun05/features/schedulers/ _______________________________________________ mythtv-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev
