[mythtv-users] Can mythtv benefit from the openMosix patch?

Jim Paris jim at jtan.com
Sun Jul 6 14:28:53 EDT 2003


> > Can mythtv benefit from the openMosix kernel patch?  My desktop is a 900
> > athlon, but I have a handful of faster servers that will be running
> > openMosix/Debian to give a kick to my desktop.  Will mythtv be able to
> > exploit the openMosix patch efficiently (ie, more than one or just a
> > handful of threads)?
> 
> Real time video encoding is a linear process.

Sure, but OpenMosix would move that linear process to a faster
machine.  That's how it works.  However, it doesn't currently support
processes with multiple threads, so it will not work for MythTV.

-jim


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