On Tuesday 17 January 2006 18:00, Steve Hodge wrote: > On 1/18/06, Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ok, its running great, is there a way I can tell what my max speeds are? > > hdparm -t > > I'm sure there are more sophisticated benchmark programs around as well. > > > also is there anything that can limit drive use in a similar way as nice > > can limit cpu usage? > > Do a search in the archives, I'm sure there have been threads > discussing powering down the drive when not in use. It's also a pretty > common requirement for laptops so there is definitely ways to do this.
well, that I'm not so worried about, I mean more along the lines of how nice can limit a process from using cycles from higher leveled processes. > > I'd like to be able to copy some shows over the network to my other > > machine but to limit this such that no write operations are missed. > > I wouldn't worry too much. The disk throughput requirements of MythTV > are actually pretty low compared to the capabilities of modern > machines. well that depends on what your doing... I need to be able to record 2 HD streams and 1 SD stream as a base, being able to playback an HD stream and copy a file to another computer, but I'd like to be able to give priority to the write operations to make sure I don't get any corrupted data due to high usage. -- Thanks! Steve _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
