Yes... I'm using gentoo.... compiling is trivial... the problem lies with XFS... and stack overflows... with 4k stacks.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/14/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Daniel Agar</b> <
<a href="mailto:daniel@agar.ca">daniel@agar.ca</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;">I briefly read something about the 4k vs 8k stacks problem. Did you have
<br>to build your own kernel to fix this?<br><br><br>> I'm using 4x 250GB PATA-100 Hard Drives ... two on the on-board nForce<br>> chipset... two on a Promise PDC20248. I'm using software RAID-5 across<br>> all
<br>> 4 disks... I have 2x PVR-350's and 1x PVR-500 and have at times been<br>> recording 4 streams at once, while watching another. This is all on the<br>> same box, combined backend and frontend.<br>><br>
> I originally had a problem with using XFS for my video storage, but<br>> someone<br>> clued me into the 4k vs 8k stacks problem... but once that was solved,<br>> this<br>> thing runs solid.<br>><br>> I hope that helps.
<br>><br>> Andy<br>><br>> On 4/14/07, John P Poet <<a href="mailto:jppoet@gmail.com">jppoet@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>>><br>>><br>>><br>>> On 4/14/07, Daniel Agar <<a href="mailto:daniel@agar.ca">
daniel@agar.ca</a>> wrote:<br>>> ><br>>> > What kind of hardware do you have? My backend is a sempron 2600 with a<br>>> > gig<br>>> > of memory.<br>>> ><br>>> > Also which distro are you using? I've always gone with fedora for my
<br>>> > mythboxes.<br>>><br>>><br>>> CPU: Pentium4 3.0GHz<br>>> MEM: 1gig DDR400<br>>> Motherboard: Asus P4C800-E<br>>> Distribution: FedoraCore 6<br>>><br>>> I am using the SATA ports on the motherboard, supplemented by a Promise
<br>>> TX4 PCI SATA controller. Nice thing about Linux software raid -- you<br>>> can<br>>> mix and match any hard driver controller you want.<br>>><br>>> John<br>>><br>>><br>>>
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