Well I’ve got the box back together with the new SSD. Still some way to go in configuring it but initial impressions are that, as predicted, RAM is an issue.<div><br></div><div>Backend and mysql take about 15% CPU capacity while recording, and the front end menu response is pretty snappy until I start a playback. Then I see kswapd taking 70-90% of the CPU and things grind to a bit of a halt! Playback very choppy and front end unresponsive.</div><div><br></div><div>I haven’t given up get. I haven’t tweaked playback profiles yet and I'm not sure VDPAU is working properly?</div><div><br></div><div>vdpauinfo shows H264 MAIN & HIGH decoding as available, but not BASELINE. I’m not sure if that matters?</div><div><br></div><div>I should have some DDR2 RAM somewhere, but they’re probably 1GB sticks so no help.</div><div><br></div><div>I'll let you know how I get on.</div><div><br></div><div>D</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><br>On Friday, 14 August 2020, Paul Gardiner <<a href="mailto:lists@glidos.net">lists@glidos.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 14/08/2020 08:36, David Watkins wrote:<br>
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Thanks for the replies.<br>
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The box only has 2GB RAM sadly, and the BIOS steals 512K of that( onboard Graphics?), but one advantage of old hardware is I might be able to find some DDR2 memory lying about the house somewhere.<br>
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I didn't have any problems with the NIC or any other hardware when I did my test install yesterday, but I had to use quite an old version of the nVidia driver (340 I think).<br>
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Anyway the SSD arrived last night so I'm giving it a go, and if that board can't hack it then I'm on the lookout for new hardware. I liked that ion board because it was small and quiet. GUI wasn't snappy but it was OK, and the Video playback was pretty good.<br>
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Please keep us posted. I for one would be very interested to know how you get on. My frontend is on Zotac Ion. I hope to move from 29 to 31 at some stage and have been wondering how well the new rendering code works on this old, probably not much tested platform.<br>
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