[mythtv-users] ionice transcodes

[Michael Wisniewski]

On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 8:01 AM, Anthony Giggins <seven at seven.dorksville.net>
wrote:

> is there any way to resure and transcode jobs are launched with ionice -c3
> ?
> or is there and equivelent of the slow delete option for transcoding jobs?
>
> I'm finding if I have a heep of transcode jobs queued (Max 2 running jobs)
> that system load goes through the roof.
>
> I'm just using the inbuilt lossless transcoding for my recordings from my
> DVB-T HDHR, I'd rather not have to resort to a script as I'm pretty much
> out of free userjobs :(
>
> otherwise I guess I could cron a task to ionice any running transcode
> processes every minute....
>
>
>
I ended up using cpulimit and found it works surprisingly well! I have
HandBrake running through it, so I am assuming the mythtranscode job could
run through it as well.  You tell it don't exceed 300% (3 cores)
utilization and it's good to go.
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