[mythtv-users] High load average while recording with 0.19
Josh Burks
dotnofoolin at gmail.com
Mon May 1 16:32:41 UTC 2006
On 5/1/06, Khanh Tran <khanh at khanh.net> wrote:
> I have a similar system (one of the original Asus Pundits) with 2x
> PVR-250, 1.8Ghz Pentium 4 and 512MB of RAM. I since went to 768Mb of
> RAM and a 2.2Ghz processor, but the performance was about the same.
> 0.19 does show up a bit heavier in top since 0.18.1, but it still
> works without that kind of stuttering.
>
> What bitrates are you capturing at? Do you have DMA set for your hard drive?
5 MB/sec, and yes DMA is set for my recording drive. I'm not at the
point where I'm ready to start throwing hardware at it, but I am
getting close to downgrading back to .18.1 (thank goodness for db
backups).
Josh
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