<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Andre <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mythtv-list@dinkum.org.uk">mythtv-list@dinkum.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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On 28 Sep 2011, at 13:20, Ronald Frazier wrote:<br>
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>> I recently found some Crucial m4 SSD's on sale for around $85 and bought two<br>
>> of them for my frontends. I've never seen the ION be so responsive moving<br>
>> through the menus, etc. What I thought was IR lag in the past was proven<br>
>> incorrect. The ION was slow because of the crappy OS media (PXE+NFS or<br>
>> USB). So far I've been happy with the local SSD in each frontend.<br>
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> Are you sure it was the NFS that was the problem? Were the files for<br>
> your PXE stored on the server using a traditional hard drive or an<br>
> SSD?<br>
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</div>I have a PXE booted NFS mounted frontend where the boot files are on an SSD, it's shared with mysql and the master backend system files but it's still very quick. I seem to need to manually trim the drive when it slows a little but then it's seriously quick.<br>
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I do have IR lag but if I plug in a keyboard it's instant.<br>
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> If it was a traditional drive, was that drive also used by<br>
> something else (your server's OS drive, or multiple frontends, or<br>
> maybe even your mysql database)? It would be really unfair to host<br>
> multiple systems on a single HD and then just claim that NFS was the<br>
> problem, when I'd suspect a more likely cause there was slower I/O<br>
> disk being overworked. Now if it was an SSD in the server that the<br>
> files were stored on, then I guess yeah...NFS would be my guess<br>
> (assuming you have no network issues otherwise).<br>
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> --<br>
> Ron Frazier<br>
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<br>I also have the fast keyboard, little bit of IR lag, but I am hoping this may improve when I convert to the IR in the kernel.<br><br>Dan <br></div></div><br>