On Jan 17, 2006, at 10:05 PM, Jason Richardson wrote: > Hello. > I have recently installed mythtv on a gentoo system (after being > unhappy with a knoppmyth setup) and have everything working great. > The problem is that whenever I watch live tv, the hard drive goes > nuts, and continues doing so until live tv is stopped. it plays/pauses > etc and works just fine, but the noise that the drive makes is quite > annoying. > Yes i know a ringbuffer is used, but I have configured myth to put > that on a different hard drive (one that isnt nearly as loud!) so I > dont understand why it is still hammering on that particular drive. > And yes i know which drive it is because i monitored the activity > lights for each drive seperately. The drive i put the ringbuffer on > does show activity, but not nearly so much as the other drive. > Any ideas what I should do to determine what file(s) it is accessing, > so that i can change the path to point to the other drive? or any > other ideas as to what it might be doing? > Thanks.
lsof will show you open files (you'll need to emerge it on a Gentoo system). Mounting filesystems with the "noatime" parameter (in /etc/ fstab) will reduce drive access as the time will not be stamped for every access. _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
