[mythtv-users] is my processor to blame? (lockups, problems with FF and REW)

[Andy Long]

On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 21:08:20 -0500, Chris Ribe <chrisribe at gmail.com> wrote:
> I run mythbackend on FC3 with a 1 GHz P3 and a pinnacle capture card,
> and the system is generally unstable.  I generally run my front end on
> a 400 Mhz PII running KnoppMyth, and that system is more stable.
> 
> I know this isn't terribly helpful, but I often run other apps (mostly
> firefox and bittorrent) while mythbackend is running, and I get a lot
> of system crashes.



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> 
> What I'm trying to say is, I don't believe FC3 is a terribly stable OS.
> 
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I'd have to disagree there.  My FC3 system is quite stable (though I'm
wrestling w/ some issues, but none are related to FC3 or cause
crashes).    Aaron, what codec are you using (it would be in your
recording profile under the LiveTV profile.  MPEG-PS, DVD-SPECIAL2,
another one?  Have you tried changing those around to see if there's
any difference in behavior?




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> On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 16:29:27 -0800, Yan-Fa Li <yanfali at best.com> wrote:
> > Aaron Aguilar wrote:
> > > First off thanks so much to this list and to Jared for helping me set
> > > up a working mythtv box.  My setup:
> > >
> > > AMD Duron 650Mhz
> > > 384mb RAM
> > > Samsung 160GB HDD
> > > FX5200
> > > Hauppauge PVR250
> > > FC3 2.6.10kernel
> > >
> >
> > Ugh.  It could be so many things.  Are you running a VIA chipset ?  Have
> > you checked the Capacitors on your board lately and are they leaking
> > (Brown Goo) ?  Do you have a decent power supply ?  Have you checked the
> > RAM lately with Memtest86 ?
> >
> > So many ways your system could be borked.  It's possible you are
> > triggering some weird race condition in myth due to a low-end cpu, but
> > apparently people have run myth on PIIs so I doubt it.  That's a fairly
> > slow piece of gear these days.  $99 bucks gets you a Sempron 2200 with
> > motherboard if you shop around.
> >
> > I have myth running on a P3 933 quite well as a front end.  Last time I
> > had problems with the IVTV and a system it was because I had bad
> > capacitors.  Pulled it all and replaced it with a nforce2/sempron.
> > Since then I fixed the bad caps on the old board and it runs reliably as
> > a windows box.  Haven't tested mythtv on it again.
> >
> > Good luck,
> >
> > Yan
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