[mythtv-users] OT: Backend cluster?

Steve Adeff adeffs at gmail.com
Mon Jan 16 14:45:27 UTC 2006


On Saturday 14 January 2006 19:10, Robert Johnston wrote:
> On 1/14/06, Jay Hutfles <jayhutfles at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm just curious if anyone has tried clustering backends together to
> > speed up post-recording jobs like commercial detection or transcoding. 
> > Wouldn't something like openMosix work?
> >
> >  If not, sorry for getting off-topic.
>
> OpenMosix wouldn't really help Myth's backend all that much, as
> Commercial Detection and Transcoding are both single-threaded. As it
> stands, if you set up another backend, jobs can be sent to it, so Myth
> parallel-processes by itself (As much as it can with single-threaded
> tasks).

you also then need to worry about recording drive speed, it needs to be able 
to keep up with recording, playback and transcoding/mythcommflagging, which 
in the world of HD streams can make things more of a challenge.

-- 
Steve


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