[mythtv] iostat curiosity
Isaac Richards
mythtv-dev@snowman.net
Fri, 13 Sep 2002 23:06:17 -0400
On Friday 13 September 2002 10:53 pm, Grant Taylor wrote:
> So here's an odd one. In steady-state, when using the mpeg4 codec at
> 480x480/44100, I ran iostat -d 2. It consistently shows that right
> around four times as many writes are happening as reads.
>
> I'm just watching "live" tv. Seems to me that reads and writes should
> be mostly even, or most offset by a second or so?
Yeah, weird. It shows up about double on my machine.. Definately would think
it'd be about the same.
Isaac