run top and see how much iowait do you have in the system.
On 1/8/06, Blammo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/8/06, Kevin Kuphal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Blammo wrote: > > > > >On 1/8/06, Mudit Wahal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > >>elevator=cfq didnt help in my setup. I never got around to moving my > > >>recordings to jfs file system. So, I'm just using 16MB buffer and > > >>seldom had iobound problem. I added another hard drive and formatted > > >>it as xfs file system. But the recording is still on ext3. > > >> > > >> > > > > > >I'm already running JFS, and elevator=deadline, which seemed to have > > >the best overall performance for HD playback during recording. > > > > > >It's been a while since this the thread mentioning buffer sizes was > > >started. Is there any way to modify this outside of a recompile? > > > > > > > > No. Are you performing comflagging on this recording while recording? > > Have you tried disabling that to see if it changes anything? > > in this case, today, there were two activities taking place: > > 1. recording HD from CBS > 2. watching the same HD recording on a dedicated frontend > > even when I stopped activity #2, I still was getting the error > messages, which then show up as "glitches" in the recording. > > nothing else. No commflag, no transcode, no nfs activity, no smb > activity. simply mythbackend saving a HD recording. > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
