[mythtv-users] Prebuffering pauses (*sigh*)

[nate s]

As I believe I mentioned, I had prebuffering pauses with system load
around 48% (due to zombie gst-thumbnails running.)  Perhaps it has to
do with IO bandwidth or something?  CPU load doesn't seem to be the
only cause.

-Nate


On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 13:54:03 -0800, glen martin <glenm at locutory.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 05:51, Matt Vollmar wrote:
> >  The best way to tune this is
> > to watch TV while running top on another machine.  You will then see how
> > much load you are putting on your machine.
> 
> How much load is reasonable? I'm getting occasional
> prebuffering pauses on a machine that is running
> 50% plus or minus idle on the front-end, which is
> an Epia M10k. Backend is 95+% idle.  I've noticed
> a tendency for the pause to cluster around scene
> changes though ... or perhaps it is commercial
> boundaries. Haven't tested thoroughly.
> 
> glen
> 
> 
> 
> 
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