[mythtv-users] Upgrading backend, need recommendations
gibble
gibble at gmail.com
Thu Nov 8 22:43:42 UTC 2007
Bill Omer-2 wrote:
>
>> > >
>> > > If the delay is when you go to the watch recordings screen, could it
>> not be
>> > > the network? Or the front end that's causing the delay rather than
>> the
>> > > backend?
>> > >
>
>
> The load on the frontend seems good. On the backend though, looks
> like I have some io wait. Here's a snippet from iostat, looks like my
> second drive (the one for recordings) is being hit constantly.
> Running iostat 1, the blk read/wrtn is pretty close to the same
> figures constantly. I'm willing to bet by biggest slow down is this
> ide drive.
>
>
> avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle
> 0.00 0.00 20.20 19.19 0.00 60.61
>
> Device: tps Blk_read/s Blk_wrtn/s Blk_read Blk_wrtn
> hda 0.00 0.00 0.00 0 0
> hdc 51.52 8727.27 2294.95 8640 2272
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Is DMA enabled on that drive?
http://knoppmythwiki.org/index.php?page=Optimize+Hard+Drive+Performance
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