Okay, perhaps you should figure out the reasons why you want to keep the master tunerless.<br>
<br>
Although, if you're sure about that, you could do MySQL and commercial
flagging on the master backend, since it's not doing any recording on
it's own.<br>
<br>
Though, as people have mentioned, it probably makes more sense to have
the tuners in the master backend and not worry about slave backends
unless you end up needing more tuners later.<br>
<br>
-Mike<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/8/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jim Minihane</b> <<a href="mailto:min02jsm@minihane.tzo.com">min02jsm@minihane.tzo.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
So MySQL deserves its own machine. I'd like to (for reasons I'm not quite<br>sure about) keep the master without tuners. And just add more slaves if I<br>have to. If the performance of MythTV would benefit that much from<br>
dedicating a machine to MySQL, then maybe I'll see about finding another<br>machine somewhere. Maybe another P3-600.<br>I've seen in here that commercial tagging is very processor intensive. If I<br>do enable commercial tagging, it will have to be on another machine. The
<br>hardware I'm using for the rest of this setup isn't powerful enough to do<br>that and be a backend AND MySQL server.<br><br><br>Thanks,<br>Jim<br><br>> -----Original Message-----<br>> From: <a href="mailto:mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org">
mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:mythtv-users-">mythtv-users-</a><br>> <a href="mailto:bounces@mythtv.org">bounces@mythtv.org</a>] On Behalf Of Chad<br>> Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 10:15 PM
<br>> To: Discussion about mythtv<br>> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Where to dedicate processing power?<br>><br>> On 3/7/06, Jim Minihane <<a href="mailto:min02jsm@minihane.tzo.com">min02jsm@minihane.tzo.com
</a>> wrote:<br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>> > If for example, I want to build an SD (no Hi Def) mythtv system with 2<br>> > frontends, a backend with no tuner but runs MySQL and file storage, and
<br>> 2<br>> > slave backends with 2 tuners each (assume PVR-500), which one should<br>> have to<br>> > most CPU? Most memory, Most HDD I/O.<br>> ><br>> > I'm really trying to find out what the processing/hardware
<br>> > requirements/desirables are for the different "nodes" of MythTV.<br>> ><br>> > I've got some old hardware lying around and will be buying a PVR-500<br>> this<br>> > weekend to begin experimenting.
<br>> ><br>> > Specifically I have a PII-400, P3-600, and a P3-933. 256MB each. HDDs<br>> can be<br>> > swapped around.<br>> ><br>> > Thanks again. I've been asking a lot of "what if" type questions so far
<br>> but<br>> > MythTV seems so impossibly flexible I just want to confirm what it can<br>> and<br>> > cannot do before I try different things.<br>> ><br>> ><br>> > _______________________________________________
<br>><br>> I'd put the processing power and RAM in one of those Slaves.<br>> Personally, here's how I'd do it:<br>> Run MySQL on that fileserver, it doesn't have to have Myth running at<br>> all. Choose one of those slaves to be the master. Give the master
<br>> all the CPU and RAM, then setup comm flagging and transcoding to all<br>> be done on that host. Next in order of who gets more power would be<br>> my frontend, from there it really doesn't matter.<br>><br>
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