[mythtv] Remote file timeout.

Isaac Richards ijr at po.cwru.edu
Sat Dec 13 13:51:00 EST 2003


On Saturday 13 December 2003 12:23 pm, avalanche at beyondmonkey.com wrote:
> With that setup your backend should normally be able to respond within
> the ~4 (may be a bit less) second timeout. Have you checked your HD DMA
> settings? I know that some of the Maxtor drives can have acoustic
> management (hdparm -M) enabled by default, that can have quite an impact
> on HD seek times.

Hmm.. are you sure that that timeout is right?  I think it's going to be < 3 
seconds or so..  Might be better to change it to check the elapsed time 
instead of counting loop iterations.

Isaac


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