Mark Woodward wrote: > I'm curious if any one has ever seen this too and if so how to fix it. > I'm using mythtv 0.18 from CVS but this has been a problem for a while > but I never really had a reason to look into it. Kernel is 2.6.8. > When ever there is network traffic (i.e. file transfer to/from the > mythbox) I get pre-buffering pauses. I'm running the frontend as suid > but I don't think it's the frontend. > My guess is that it is a kernel config issue. I have dma turned on for > the drives so it might be the Ethernet card hogging the CPU (IRQ?). I > turned on pre-empting in the kernel but no difference. > Any ideas where to look next?
You could try limiting the MTU (using ifconfig) to make the network driver process things in smaller chunks. -Doug
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