[mythtv-users] MythTV Installer Usability: An Analysis

ffrr ffrr at tpg.com.au
Fri Nov 4 05:22:59 EST 2005


Rudy Zijlstra wrote:

>>
> Hmm, this is a case where i actually agree with the knoppmyth 
> installer. I have several tuners (6 total) and when 5 (current 
> concurrent max) are recording at the same time, i do not want the IO 
> from the live buffer on the same disk-set. Also, for demo purposes i 
> sometimes watch the demo HD MPEG2 channel, this takes a lot of data to 
> the live buffer. For this reason the live buffer (actually all of them 
> on the same) are on a separate U320 SCSI disk, used only for this. 
> (bit of over-capacity, but i hate failures).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rudy


Yes, that is a good reason to put it on a separate disk, but not a 
separate partition of the same disk, which is what Knoppmyth does.   
Anyway, I still don't understand why it continues to grow.  If I am 
staying a fixed time behind 'live' then the buffer should be a fixed length.


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