[mythtv-users] High IO activity during recording

[Thomas Börkel]

HI!

On 30.11.2014 18:15, Karl Newman wrote:

> Is NCQ enabled? On my motherboard the controller SATA mode is not AHCI
> by default so I had to enable it in the BIOS. This post is a good
> reference for checking it:
> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpost.php?s=e03f78859973c9cd7094b67060295547&p=957135&postcount=2
> Essentially, you can check it by cat /sys/block/sdX/device/queue_depth
> (where X is your SATA device--a, b, c, etc.) If the depth is greater
> than 1, then NCQ is enabled.

Thanks for the hint. Just checked it and it's 31 on all devices on both
systems.

Regards,
Thomas