<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 9:56 AM, jansenj <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jansenj%2Bmyth@gmail.com">jansenj+myth@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I've noticed my hard drive thrashing a lot while recording 2 hd shows<br>
(from hdhomerun) and watching a third HD show on a frontend/backend.<br>
I've noticed some issues with the 2 hd recordings when I do this. Is<br>
there an easy way to reduce the amount of head movement on the hard<br>
drive? Can you force an IO buffer so you can burst closer to 8mb or<br>
something along those lines. Does the HD ring buffer help out with<br>
normal recording? Otherwise is there a generic linux parameter that<br>
could help out. I have 1gig of RAM, would more help? I only have 1<br>
hard drive right now for recordings. Any suggestions?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Do you have your database on the same drive as the recordings? All the seektable updates in the DB for 2 recordings + playback + possible commflagging can be pretty hard on the drive. I usually recommend that /var or the place where your DB is stored be on a drive different than any recordings.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Kevin</div></div></div>