[mythtv-users] Re: Large-scale myth farm

Stephen Boddy stephen.boddy at btinternet.com
Sun Oct 9 01:44:48 UTC 2005


On Tuesday 04 October 2005 20:52, Robert Tsai wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 07:24:29PM +0100, Stephen Boddy wrote:
> > Just a quick note that, depending on your system and set-up, the
> > transcoding may take longer than you expect. I have an Athlon 64,
> > and the cool-n-quiet means that when idle it roughly halves the
> > processor speed. Niced processes (i.e. the transcoding) do not cause
> > the processor to ramp up to full speed. I found this out when I
> > niced the MythTV compile and wondered why it was taking so long.
>
> If you are using cpufreq:
>
> 	http://lwn.net/Articles/106900/?format=printable
>
> The default value is "0". To change it:
>
> 	# echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/ondemand/ignore_nice
>
> This means that the CPU will run at full throttle even for "nice"d
> processes.

Nice to know for the future. Thanks Rob
-- 
Steve Boddy


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