[mythtv-users] Distributing jobs

[Tom Lichti]

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Dura Zell <dura-zell at dynamik.ddns.net> wrote:
> On 23.05.2011 16:58, Raymond Wagner wrote:
>> On 5/23/2011 10:49, Dura Zell wrote:
>>> Ok, I've got another machine running some kind of homeserver (samba,
>>> caching proxy, etc) wich is running 24/7 and faster (AMD 64x2, 2200MHz,
>>> 64bit). Is there a way to let this machine do the transcoding jobs while
>>> the master backend is powered down (for power saving reasons and because
>>> the masterbackend standing in the living room is a bit noisy) or has the
>>> master backend to be running until all jobs are completed?
>>
>> The master backend and database must remain operational for any Myth
>> related tasks.  Is there any reason you can't move those PVR-350s over
>> to the file server, and make that the master?
>
> Indeed there are two reasons:
> First the fileserver has no free PCI slots. Second and much more
> important: The room where the fileserver sits has no wall-sockets for
> cable-tv. (At my location I have to use cabel-tv.) The living room is
> the only room where those sockets are located.

My thought would be to make the file server the master backend, and
make the current master into a slave, if that is not an option, your
only recourse is to leave the master up at all times and run the file
server either as a slave or as a job server using mythjobqueue.

Tom