On July 7, 2005 06:21 pm, Anthony Floyd wrote: > > way to check which tuner recorded what program? Could my problem be > > memory-related? I have 512MB in the machine, and it seems to run fairly > > 'full' - I've seen it at 1% or 2% free when a lot was going on. > > Hi Steve, > > Sorry to hear about your problems. 512MB should be plenty. I'm > running a similar setup (Athlon XP 2500+, 512 MB, 1x350, 1x250, > NForce2, etc) and when both tuners are running, I have no problems at > all. > > When you say 1% or 2% free, how are you checking this? If you run > "free -m" at the command line, it'll give you a breakdown of your > memory usage. The first line might make things look pretty occupied, > but you'll probably notice that a good deal of your space is occupied > by the disk cache. The second line is the interesting one, showing > the "used" and "free" memory when the disk cache is removed from the > numbers. When my machine (frontend + backend combined) is recording > on both tuners, (and watching a recording, and serving an mp3 to me > here at work, transcoding through lame...) I'm only seeing ~16% CPU > usage, and the memory used is 271 MB (231 MB free). > > Could the problem be your hard drives? DMA is enabled? > > Cheers, > Anthony. > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Are you running on an older VIA chipset? I had stuttering with multiple tuners until I swapped to a new motherboard. Mark _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
