<div dir="ltr">On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 10:01 PM, Paul Bender <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pebender@san.rr.com">pebender@san.rr.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">Bobby Gill wrote:<br>
> My Mythbox specs are a PVR-150 and drive is a WD Sata 320gb 16mb cache.<br>
><br>
> Currently if the tuner is recording and I try to watch a previous<br>
> recording at the same time, I notice slowdown in responsiveness for<br>
> things like rewinding/forwarding and whatnot. Now if I add another<br>
> tuner, would that make things smoother for playback?<br>
><br>
> Or another scenario I'm pondering to get things smoove is that I'm<br>
> thinking of adding a Seagate 32mb cache drive. Now could I have Myth set<br>
> up so that it records LiveTV to one drive and keeps recordings on<br>
> another?So if it were to be recording Live TV while I'm watching a<br>
> previous recording, surely things would be faster.<br>
><br>
> Just a bit confused on this, trying to get it a lil smoother as even<br>
> deleting files on the drive causes playback to pause, and I have the<br>
> delete files slowly option in mythtv-setup checked.<br>
><br>
> Thanks for any help,<br>
> Bob<br>
<br>
</div></div>Are your MySQL database and recording/livetv directory on the save<br>
drive? If so, then you might get the best performance increase by moving<br>
the MySQL database to a different drive.<br></blockquote></div><br>I agree, I had issues until I added a second drive (500GB) for recordings only. I have a very minimal system for HD (ATSC) but after adding the second drive and a little memory it does quite well and I hardly ever get pauses in playback even if I'm recording two HD programs and watching another.<br>
<br>It's also worthwhile to do a little googling on mysql optimization. <br><br>Richard<br></div>