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On Dec 25, 2013 1:45 PM, "Drew Tomlinson" <<a href="mailto:drew@mykitchentable.net">drew@mykitchentable.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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> I've been running a combo front/backend on an Athlon dual core box for many years. It works but it's a bit low powered for commercial detection jobs, especially for HD streams.<br>
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> I've recently replaced an old P3 600 mhz unix server with a Xeon based processor and have built a VMWare ESXi host. I plan on rebuilding my old server as a VM on this box. However I will have a lot of available CPU power here and wondered about building another VM who's sole purpose is to take some of the commercial detection load off of my master backend.<br>
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> I'm not sure how to do this. At first I assumed I would need to build a slave backend. However I have seen other threads that talk about there being no reason to build a slave backend unless there are tuners attached as mythjobqueue can provide the function with much less overhead.<br>
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> Can anyone point me in the right direction to get this started? I have built a VM with Mythbuntu, choosing the slave backend option, but don't really know how to get it to help with commercial detection jobs on the master.<br>
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> Thanks,<br>
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> Drew<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">Run mythtv-setup like you are configuring a slave back end and then just have mythjobqueue run instead of mythbackend.</p>
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