[mythtv-users] Scheduler interrupts playback

[Paul Warren]

On 28/02/2012 20:56, Raymond Wagner wrote:
> On 2/28/2012 15:09, Paul Warren wrote:
>> I'm experiencing occassional pauses in playback lasting a few seconds.
>> As far as I can tell they usually coincide with when recordings are
>> starting or finishing, so I'm guessing it's the scheduler running.
>>
>> I've found various other threads on this issue, one of which gave the
>> MySQL query which the scheduler runs.  I've tried running this manually,
>> but have never managed to trigger the problem, despite the query taking
>> up to 18 seconds.
>
> What processor is this being run on?  What kind of disk?  What filesystem?

Backend is 800MHz AMD Athlon(tm) II Neo N36L Dual-Core.

MySQL is on a single SATA disk.  video files are on a software RAID 10 
array across 4 other SATA disks.

FS on both is ext4.

Paul