[mythtv-users] Preventing a file transfer from saturating the network

[Gordon McCrae]

First of all check your system logs to see if there are any errors, 
always best to rule that out before making changes to an otherwise 
working system.

After that, here are a couple of likely problem sources the two most 
likely that I can think of are network, and disk throughput saturation.

On the network side, the simplest solution is to add a second network 
card and dedicate it to the HDHR, thus separating the regular network 
traffic and the HDHR traffic.

On the disk side, I would expect to see errors in dmesg or 
/var/log/messages, but not always. You could always alter the file 
transfer so that it uses rsync (or something similar) to throttle the 
network throughput of the file transfer. With rsync, you would use the 
--bwlimit option to limit the data transfer rate, this may also be a 
short term work-around until you get that 2nd network card!

Cheers
Gordon


On 23/12/14 15:11, Neil Salstrom wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have an issue that's happened frequently enough to finally find a
> fix.  If I transfer across my network to my MythTV box, whatever is
> being recorded or on LiveTV will be completely pixelized and
> corrupted.  I suspect I'm maxing out my network bandwidth and the
> transfer it taking precedence over my HDHomerun network tuner.
>
> During a file transfer i typically get between 85MB/s and 110MB/s
> across the network.  My two computers are 1000Mb/s and the HDHomerun
> is 100Mb/s.  There are no issues if I'm watching something that has
> been recorded and it's only when I'm watch live or a playback from
> when a file transfer occurred.
>
> I'm suspecting this is QOS related but I've never played with those
> settings.  Would this be in my router or my MythTV box?
>
> Thanks!
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