So, this weekend I rebuilt my Myth box with svn 15504 in order to get multi-rec.<br><br>It's all working very nicely but I was wondering about the setting of "max no. of recordings" on the capture card. This is what turns a single real tuner into a number of "virtual tuners" I guess. It defaults to 2. My system has a single SATA2 disc (16Mb cache, 7200rpm IIRC) and my recordings partition is using xfs. I've got a single Nova-T 500
i.e. 2 physical tuners.<br><br>So I've been thinking about whether I want to increase this value or not. <br><br>I'm wondering what sort of throughput it's reasonable to expect on a disc - and I'm assuming the disc is the limiting factor here. I have in the past year recorded two programs, whilst watching a 3rd and transcoding a 4th as part of a mytharchive job - I've done this quite regularly. Once or twice there was even a fifth doing ad-scanning - which I hadn't realised was running. So we're talking 5 pretty disc intensive operations simultaneously. Having said that I've got the RT priority stuff enabled and I know that mytharchive at least re-nices its jobs to a lower priority.
<br><br>I guess the obvious answer is to run a few tests and see what happens. Has anyone done this? Any thoughts on the issue?<br><br>Cheers<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Paul Mason