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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 23/10/13 19:55, Joseph Fry wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">I am running a diskless frontend via iSCSI (added GPXE to boot rom)
and it has served me well for well over a year.
My only complaint is that things like artwork and channel icons seem
to take much (.25 - .5 sec) longer to load than they do on my
MBE/FE... its tolerable, but annoying because I know how fast it
could/should be. I am not sure it's iSCSI necessarily, it may just be
the difference between a f dedicated frontend and a BE/FE combo.
I may just put the frontend on a USB stick, but before I did that, I
was wondering if there is any other way to make things respond a bit
faster. Prehaps moving a cache to a ramdisk (I could spare 500 MB of
ram for it), or adjusting a setting to use memory instead of disk
cache, or something like that.
At some point I'll move that frontend over to a USB stick, or a cheap
SSD. It's my primary use frontend, and it needs to be silent (which
is why I went diskless to begin with).
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Hiya - I've also been
running a slave/fe like this for over 4 years. For me it's fast
enough, but waiting for ubuntu to boot is sometimes a bit slow.
But's that's iscsi. Starting mythfrontend is fine as it auto
starts, and the delay is the OS load.<br>
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I assume your running everything over a GB network that makes a
big difference. 100Mbs iscsi is a tad slow. If you're going to
boot from usb stick - then I'm assuming USB 3 otherwise I can't
imagine being that much faster.<br>
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Next time I refresh my h/w I'll move from iscsi back to a </font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">ssd</font> a small mSATA. Fast boots are preferable
when my partner sat in front of the TV. Then again alot of modern
TVs provide great dlna playbacks from nas', servers and I do
wonder if I need a frontend on the TVs anymore. We've kind of
stopped using mythfrontend for playback and stream over twonky
from our master backend to a sony tv, my slave syncs after it has
finished recording.<br>
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Given that they are not too expensive, if you want a springy
launch, I'd just buy a SDD now. Save you a lot of time. I've use
one is for my server for my iscsi disk paritions, it works well
but does not deliver desktop performance as it's iscsi over Gigabit.<br>
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Go on buy yourself that ssd.<br>
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