Using top check your load averages. On my server where is it constantly recording 3-4 PAL DTT programs my load averages are: load average: 0.24, 0.54, 0.71
If yours show >1.0 then I would imagine you have a problem. Software RAID in my opinion should take up no more than 3-5% if the server is busy. Also check "0.0% wa" as this is IO waits and would be greater than 30% or more if your SATA controller/disks is the bottleneck rather than the CPU. Johnathon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Discussion about mythtv" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 3:05 PM Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Software RAID5 no improvement to transferspeed... On Jan 12, 2006, at 7:39 AM, Steve Adeff wrote: > well I got my software RAID5 up and running. 3 drives, no spares. > but I still get playback stuttering while recording 2 HD channels > and playing > 1 prerecorded HD show. The cpu usage hasn't gone higher than 96% so > I don't > think its a cpu usage problem. > I do have all three drives connected to the same onboard SATA150 > controller > though I don't know if this could be a problem? > It sure might be, whatever tool you are using to measure CPU load (top?) is averaging over some period of time, if the average is 96% then you are almost certainly hitting peaks of 100%+. _______________________________________________ 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
