[mythtv-users] My so far 0.26 expierience

[Martin Moores]

On 3 October 2012 08:40, warpme <warpme at o2.pl> wrote:

> Hi *
>
> As 0.26 seems to be released, I want to share with You my over month of
> experience with 0.26.
> My sys is quite standard: headless BE + 3 ION1 diskless FE + 2xOSX FE
> BE in on AMD880G with E235 CPU (2x2,6G, 35W), 4G RAM, 2TB WD green for
> OS/DB/Movies, 3TB WD Green for recordings, 4xDVB-S2 tuners on Unicable,
> 1xDVB-T.
>
> Upgrade:
> I upgraded from highly stable 0.25.2. Compiling BE was snap. With FE I had
> glitch related to cross-building zeromq (I'm building 64bit FE image on
> 32bit host). Adding compiler -fPIC option solves issue.
> Upgrade went without any problem - only thing worth to mention that DB
> upgrade is loooong (mine took 10min or so).
> Generally - after packages preparation I was up & running within 10min.
> Polishing took 2-3 evenings (i.e. there was change in xml status date
> format so I have to adapt my scripts, etc).
>
> First look:
> Ppl using 0.25 will feel like in home. I haven't time to play with i.e.
> with HLS, but MythMusic Internet streams playback is HUGE thing for me !.
> I would say 0.26 is pretty safe for ppl don't liking learning new
> UI/features.
>
> Daily use:
> As I want to be sure system is stable, initially I run some stability
> tests: beside 20-30 daily family records I scheduled 36 test recordings
> rules triggering up to 16 (8HD+8SD) parallel recordings.
> After 2 weeks of tests I can say: 0.26 is far most stable release I had.
> I'm conservative type of user (preferring stability over functionality) so
> I must say I'm really impressed with 0.26 stability and performance (i.e.
> 16 concurrent recordings on single SATA attached WD3TB is absolutely no
> problem; gives avg 45% load on CPU & 15-25% IOwait).
> Some time ago I post on users mailing list about high BE RSS consumption
> (1-1,3GB when recording 16 parallel streams.). This issue is solved by
> applying hunk4 from ticket11061.
> During month of operation I had single segfault on BE (also described on
> users ML), but absolutely no any other show stoppers - so in my case 0.26
> is really best ver. ever.
>
> If anybody is not sure go or not with 0.26 - I strongly encourage You to
> go.
>
> For devs I want to say huge _TTHHAANNKK YYOOUU_ for Your incredible work !
>
> -br
>
> Thanks for the info and feedback, I didn't even know 0.26 had been
released, nothing announced on dev/user list/website, just checked the
wiki, that is up-to-date and showing yesterday as release day.  SO guess
the announcement will be out soon.

Will try and check this out at the weekend!

Cheers
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