[mythtv-users] How to safely stop mythcommflag
George Mari
george_mythusers at mari1938.org
Mon Jul 14 03:31:33 UTC 2008
Ma Begaj wrote:
> 2008/7/11 Bruce Nordstrand <brucen at ksl.com.au>:
>> Sometimes I would like to stop mythcommflag from running 'cause it loads
>> up my machine. Just how do I do it safely without disturbing the
>> database tables?
>>
>> Cheers
>> Bruce
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> no idea, but you could start mythfronted with higher priority than mythcommflag.
>
> see "man nice" and "ionice"... here are some infos:
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/291916?search_string=ionice
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Have you tried setting the comm flag jobs to low CPU usage? They get
niced automagically...
Run mythtvsetup on the backend, 'General' setup, about the 7th screen in.
It doesn't reduce memory or IO usage, but it does help on the CPU.
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