[mythtv] performance
Joe
mythtv-dev@snowman.net
Fri, 13 Dec 2002 17:01:55 -0700
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Your hard drive seems slow. Are you using ATA66 or ATA100 (80 wire
ribbon cable)?<br>
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I using a cheap system I built this week. My system has an Athlon XP
1700, 512MB PC133 ram, 2 WinTV tuner cards, SBLive, Ensoniq, 60GB IBM
HD. <br>
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hdparam -t returns:<br>
Timing buffered disk <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="reads: ">reads: </a> 64 MB in 1.65 seconds = 38.79 MB/sec
(same results multiple times)<br>
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Top returns 44% idle time, with a load averages of 0.52.<br>
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Chuck Ferring wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">I noticed that watching
live TV uses 95-100% CPU time using mpeg4 encoding at 640 X 480. My
system is an Athlon XP 1800 with 256M PC 2100 ram. Running hdparm
tells me that my hard drive throughput is about 23 Mb / sec. Is this
performance about what I should expect? If so, what would be the best
way to increase performance, more memory, faster processor or faster
hard drive?</span></font></p>
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