[mythtv-users] MythTV Installer Usability: An Analysis

[Rudy Zijlstra]

ffrr wrote:

> Rudy Zijlstra wrote:
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>> 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
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> 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.

It continues to grow until a preset maximum. After that is loops. The 
problem with the current knoppmyth installer seems to be that the preset 
buffer size is bigger than the partition it is placed on....