[mythtv-users] Basic requirements (hardware)

[Jeff C]

At 11:37 AM 5/31/2003 -0400, you wrote:

>i think its a 5400, but i forget what i've got where now.

Hmm, when you get a chance can you check this, I'm just curious - one of my 
random thoughts on what might be going on.  In the past I have seen IO 
buffer related errors but haven't seen them lately.

>the thing i don't understand though, is LOWERing the bitrate shouldn't 
>expose bad disk performance problems.  it /might/ expose insufficient cpu, 
>but then i would think that my proc usage should go up.  having it not go 
>up, maybe indicates bus performance problems, but i'm not sure. i think 
>the most likely candidate is timing problems, but thats what i need to 
>investigate.

Agreed on disk performance, but who knows...  I am also using my system a 
lot more so more of the disk is being used - so maybe the seeking around is 
catching up with me every now and then - not a lot of apps do such high 
bandwidth continuous reads where you would notice a small thing like some 
frame/audio synching.  I think having a bigger disk cache would help...

>one thing i thought though, if you're going away, you might not want to 
>screw around with it.  if lowering it further does cause problems on your 
>system, then it will be un-usable for you wife.  i know mine doesn't 
>really care for all the experimenting i'm doing with our main tv source... 
>especially if it interferes with things like ER...;-)

That's the challenge with running a project at the stage Myth it - on the 
one hand it looks amazing and completely ready for prime time (IE my wife 
fell in love with it and sees it as part of our AV system now) and on the 
other, I still like to do regular updates and tweaking to get little things 
sorted out.  But messing with ER is definitely a no no.   I already 
accidentally erased the season finale and had to find it on Kazaa ;)

-Jeff