[mythtv-users] Playing slightly jerky every now and then

[Thomas Börkel]

HI!

mmcconnell at uniserve.com wrote:
> 720x568 & 7000 kbit's is a pretty good chunk of data! I suggest you take a peak 
> at 'iostat' while watching livetv.
> 
> http://perso.wanadoo.fr/sebastien.godard/ (or apt-get install sysstat)
> iostat 1
> 
> What kinda blocks written / read are you seeing?

No Reads! Wite: About 2200.

> Have you tuned your drives with hdparm?

hdparms says UDMA2. Tested the drive (Samsung 160 GB) at 30 MB/s.

> Try renice: renice -16 -u mythtv

Can this cause any other problems?

Thomas