[mythtv] Re: [mythtv-commits] mythtv commits

[Isaac Richards]

On Saturday 14 May 2005 01:37 pm, Bruce Markey wrote:
> I'll take a look at it. Might not be much of a performance win
> and if there is any chance of a burst of motion out running the
> filesystem read ahead then it may not be a good thing. Keeping
> the 2.5MB buffer is cheap and takes the fs characteristics almost
> completely out of the equation.

Yeah, but it is an extra thread, with all the extra locking, wait conditions, 
etc.  Simplification's good. =)

Isaac