<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Apr 10, 2006, at 12:56 PM, James Oltman wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV><DIV><BR><BR>The network connection between these two machines hasn't changed. It's a switched 10/100 Cat5e network. I do not know the command to test CPU times. Sorry to be a pain but I know just enough to get MythTV running on Linux, and not enough of the internal workings of Linux (in my case, FC5). I went to the /var/log/mythtv directory and I am not seeing any log files. Where can I enable logging? <BR></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>You are not "being a pain", you just want to get your system running, as do all of us.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The network might be the same but has anything increased the traffic load (little brother deciding to play internet games?). This is probably not your problem, just mentioned it to be complete).</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>"top" will show you your CPU load, among other things. Look for the cpu line:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Cpu(s): 0.0% us, 0.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 100.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The "% id" is the idle time of the cpu.<FONT size="4"><SPAN style="font-family: mon;"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT size="4"><SPAN style="font-family: mon;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT>This makes me think that DMA is enabled and working. So we can rule that out. Do I need to run MythFrontEnd with a special switch in order to get logging? Again, sorry for the noob questions.
<BR><BR></SPAN></FONT></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"></BLOCKQUOTE>Yup, looks like you're using DMA. "hdparm -tT /dev/hd<n>" will show you if you have any other problems with your disk system, again I'm just trying to cover all the bases.<BR></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Check your free CPU, and check that you are not using v-Sync with the 8178 nvidia drivers, as was pointed out here that is problematic.</DIV></BODY></HTML>