[mythtv-users] Hard disk access

[Mike Grusin]

I've been wondering this myself ever since I got my FE+BE box running.  The
hard drive light blinks approximately every second when it's "not doing
anything" (which doesn't happen much anymore ;)  According to system
information in Myth, almost all of the RAM is being used (512M), but none of
the swap, so the drive access always puzzled me.

Just curious.  -MG.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org]On Behalf Of CHRIS KOTTING
> Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 6:00 AM
> To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> Subject: [mythtv-users] Hard disk access
>
>
> I think I just had an "AHA!" moment.  I've been wondering why my MythBox
> (combined frontend/backend) keeps accessing the hard drive.
>
> Is it the database being queried for jobs?
>
> Chris K.
>
> "Chris Pinkham" said, in part...
>
> > The default check frequency is 60 seconds, but it goes down to 10 or
> > up to 300 seconds in 5-second increments.  I don't think 10 seconds is
> > too long to wait for a queue run, but don't see harm in setting this
> > as low as 5 seconds.  Going all the way to 1 could cause problems for
> > some people though for a couple reasons.  The constant database hits
> > querying for new jobs and the added system load from firing off 5-10
> > jobs at 1-second intervals could cause hickups in recording so I didn't
> > want to go that low.  I also didn't want to fire off multiple jobs in
> > the same cycle because that would have the same effect.
>
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