[mythtv-users] Cheapest way to build a frontend?

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Thu Dec 28 03:10:31 UTC 2006


On 12/27/06, Jesse Dhillon <tobor at berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
>  Marco, here are my numbers from a different thread. Do they seem
> reasonable? Also, are you using SATA drives and have you been able to tune
> them if so?
>
> without mythfrontend:
> jesse at dionysis:~> sudo hdparm -Tt /dev/sda
> /dev/sda:
>  Timing cached reads: 2500 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1250.10 MB/sec
>  Timing buffered disk reads: 210 MB in 3.02 seconds = 69.63 MB/sec
>
> with mythfrontend:
> /dev/sda:
>  Timing cached reads: 328 MB in 2.04 seconds = 161.00 MB/sec
>  Timing buffered disk reads: 48 MB in 3.14 seconds = 15.28 MB/sec
>
>
> Jesse.
Here is what I get without and then with mythfrontend (and watching a show):

# hdparm -tT /dev/sda

/dev/sda:
 Timing cached reads:   1630 MB in  2.00 seconds = 815.19 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:  226 MB in  3.00 seconds =  75.21 MB/sec

jmd1 shellscripts # hdparm -tT /dev/sda

/dev/sda:
 Timing cached reads:   1104 MB in  2.00 seconds = 551.84 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:  218 MB in  3.02 seconds =  72.18 MB/sec

I do have a dual 2.4GHz Opteron system with 4GB of memory though...
John


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