[mythtv-users] anyone experimented with fair io scheduling?

[Ian Forde]

On Sun, 2004-01-25 at 15:16, David Jeske wrote:
> While I'm doing a DVDrip, video playback stutters pretty badly. The
> CPU usage on the machine is zilch. With the disk light solidly on the
> entire time, it's clear that the DVDripper is using up tons of IO
> time and that's what stutters the playback.

What does hdparm tell you about your dvd drive?  Did you remember to
turn on DMA?

	-I
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