[mythtv-users] Importing Musci

[Charles Francis]

> On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 13:43 -0400, Charles Francis wrote:
>> I have a pretty extensive MP3 collection and am trying to import it into
>> myth.  I setup a NFS share between my FC5 file server and my FC5 fe/be
>> combo.  I tried to just select import music and let it go to town,
>> however, after 3 days of the mythfrontend running at 99.9% cpu and the
>> screen stuck at updating database at 61% I tried another approach.
>>
> What versions of Myth and MySQL are you running?
>
>> I moved all of the mp3's from the share and started to move them back in
>> little by little and purged the mythconverg database music section to no
>> avail.  Once I get around 40gb of music in the folder, the updating
>> database just stalls and mythfrontend stays at 99.9%.
>>
>> Any ideas?  Is this a known limitation?
> I have 102+ GB of music in my system and there are no problems. The
> latest release of Myth (0.19) seems to have speed up some of the steps
> in loading up the database incrementally but the initial load can still
> take a long time. My load was 4+ hours on a 4x2.0 GHz opteron system.
>
I'm running myth .19 with mysql 5.0.22.  My system is an Athlon 64 3200+
with 2gb of ram with a single 300gb SATA drive.