On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 11:06 PM, Josh White <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jaw1959@gmail.com">jaw1959@gmail.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;">
It seems like a 4 core cpu with 4gb of ram should be able to handle the various tasks involved</blockquote><div><br>I'm pretty much doing all this with a dual-core CPU and 2 GB RAM. I allow 2 jobs at a time, enable commflagging while recording, have 5 tuners (2 HDHRs and a PVR-150), and can watch HD and browse mythweb while this is going on. I tried using just 1 GB RAM, but then swapping would make mythfrontend feel like an old tivo with its frequent delays when selecting a menu item.<br>
<br>I don't know anything about RAID, but it's good that you're planning for enough disks that you can keep the DB separate from the recordings. That's my biggest pain point, as I have two big disks with the OS/DB on one. The best ways to help this were to enable fast deletes (ext file systems) and to restrict mythfilldatabase to the wee hours when almost nothing is recording.<br>
<br>Jim<br></div></div>