[mythtv-users] 0.27 watching Live recording freezes

Mark Pennock markitman2 at gmail.com
Mon Dec 2 17:49:19 UTC 2013


Is this still an issue if you have two disks in one storage group?


On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 7:20 PM, Dave Hill <myth at davidrhill.com> wrote:

>
> On 11/24/2013 10:21 AM, Steven Adeff wrote:
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>> On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Dave Hill <myth at davidrhill.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 11/20/2013 11:21 AM, Steven Adeff wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 9:04 PM, Dave Hill <myth at davidrhill.com> wrote:
>>>> Could this be the result of too many capture cards with only one
>>>> storage group? My backend has 1 HDPVR + 2 HVR2000s and 1 PVR150 and they
>>>> all record to one storage group. Perhaps the load of a couple of HD
>>>> recordings + both commflagging + 1 frontend watching is too much for the
>>>> hard drive? I am considering adding a storage group on a new drive to see
>>>> if that helps. Thanks, Dave
>>>>
>>> sorry, meant starting livetv again.
>> it sounds like your drive speed may not be up to the task you are asking
>> of it.
>>
>> top shows wait i/o, %wa
>>
>>  That seems to have been the issue.  I added a 1TB WD Black drive as a
> second storage group and changed the scheduling to use Balanced Disk I/O.
>  It seemed to hold up fine during today's games; no freezes!
> Thanks,
> Dave
>
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