[mythtv-users] mythfilldatabase at nice=0?

[Steven Adeff]

On 3/7/06, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 03/07/06 19:16, Steven Adeff wrote:
>
> >is there a way to change the mythfilldatabase level so it doesn't
> >interfere with watching HDTV?
> >
>
> Responding to your subject, the MythFillDatabasePath is a path to an
> executable, so it could be a shell script that runs mfdb niced (and
> returns an appropriate exit status).  However, I don't know whether that
> would affect your HDTV watching because it's likely that MySQL is taking
> up much of the system resources during an mfdb run...
>
> Mike

ah, true, didn't think of it in terms of MySQL... I just need to buy a
faster processor =D

--
Steve