[mythtv-users] Jittery Playback On Separate Frontend When Downloading an MPEG to a third box.

[Nick Rout]

On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 3:42 AM, Travis Tabbal <travis at tabbal.net> wrote:
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> On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 10:33 PM, Tortise <tortise at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
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>> I note when playing a recording from to a separate frontend and
>> downloading a MPEG to another computer @ ~ 12 MBps interferes with the
>> playback on the frontend.  Sometimes the Frontend will crash in this
>> circumstance by completely freezing.  In this case the NIC's concerned are
>> Intel GT Pro 1000's.  Playback on the FE/BE is predictably not affected.
>>  This is on JYA's latest fixes 23426.
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>> One expected response is not to do the same together, which of course
>> works however I suggest it is desirable that the above scenario should also
>> work?
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> Sounds to me like your disk can't keep up. What's the storage setup on the
> backend?

I guess if the downloading is at full speed it is flooding the
server's link to the switch. Some qos fiddling might help.