[mythtv-users] Live TV Pauses

[Stephen Tait]

At 11:37 30/06/2004 -0600, you wrote:
> > I am also using XFS ... for where myth is reading files, and I am seeing
> > the same jitters.
>
>I am starting to suspect XFS as well. When I do an emerge -s blah, the
>hard drive goes crazy for a while (i.e. taking longer than what I am
>used to seeing on other systems). But a move to ext2/3 seems like a step
>backwards though..

Try JFS. It's not as fast at transfers as XFS, but it's got *much* lower 
resource usage, and is the file speed deletion king. I left a cat 
/dev/video0 > really_huge.mpeg going for 12 hours and JFS deleted it in a 
second :^)