[mythtv-users] Toggleing JobQueueMaxSimultaneousJobs

[Tom Lichti]

Chris Moewes-Bystrom wrote:
> I run 2 back ends, one with 2 tuner cards in it and one with no tuner 
> cards primarily to offload the comm flagging and trans coding. I 
> currently have my primary backed (which is also my front end, hence the 
> reason to offload work) set to a max jobs of 0 so it doesn't actually do 
> any post processing. I was thinking of writing a script that would 
> either look at the tuner status and if they aren't recording toggle it 
> to process jobs and if they are to change it back to 0. 

Shouldn't be terribly difficult to do with a couple of mysql commands.

> My question is 
> this, does anyone know if toggling the jobs count to 0 will cause any 
> current jobs to be killed or stopped, or will it finish off what it is 
> doing but not do any more?

I can't answer that, but an easy thing to do would be to test it...

> 
> Also, is it possible to set one back end end to only do comm flagging 
> and another to do transcodeing
> 

Yes, in mythtv-setup (I believe) under the general settings you allow or 
dis-allow both commflagging and transcoding per host.

Tom