[mythtv-users] Are there any throttling features in Mythtv?

[Yeechang Lee]

Paul Gardiner <lists at glidos.net> says:
> > Odd that it would hang instead of stuttering.
> 
> Exactly the same thought occurred to me when I read of the problem.
> Definitely sounds like a hardware or driver problem. Linux will trudge
> on almost whatever you throw at it.

To paraphrase the 42nd President of the United States, it depends on
your definition of "hang." On my all-purpose slave
backend/MySQL/VMware Server/samba server a load of above 6 or so means
it's pretty much unreponsive, and the frontend/master
backend--dependent on it for, well, pretty much everything--will seem
similarly so. As long as it doesn't run out of memory (if I've turned
swapping off and forgot to reenable it, for example) said server will
indeed "trudge on" once the load comes back down, but I wonder if the
original poster simply didn't wait long enough?

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