[mythtv-users] Mooting architecture for a DataDirect replacement
Jay R. Ashworth
jra at baylink.com
Thu Jun 21 13:47:11 UTC 2007
On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 02:33:38PM +1000, Peter Schachte wrote:
> Sure, there's nothing wrong with using a database, but I think an XMLTV file
> would work just as well, and could be much cheaper on server resources to
> handle. The scheme you're suggesting requires the server to figure out what's
> changed since a certain date for every transaction. If the number of requests
> gets high, that could be expensive. It also requires a fair bit of coding. I
> would think rsync would be more efficient for the server.
Sure. But NNTP and "believe the last signed entry you got for the
timeslot/channel" is even lower load. On both ends.
Cheers,
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