[mythtv-users] anyone experimented with fair io scheduling?

[David Jeske]

-- Ian Forde wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-01-25 at 15:16, David Jeske wrote:
>> While I'm doing a DVDrip, video playback stutters
>> pretty badly. The CPU usage on the machine is zilch.
>
> What does hdparm tell you about your dvd drive?
> Did you remember to turn on DMA?

Thanks for the suggestion! I assumed that it was saturating the hard
drive, but I guess not. After running the following dvd config line,
everything is great, no more stutters during dvdrip:

hdparm -d1 -c1 -X34 -u1 /dev/hdc

Here is the resource I used:


http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/debian-user-200212/msg05017.html
- David