[mythtv-users] Master backend always up, slaves sleep/wake

[Brad Templeton]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 11:03:17PM -0500, Jon wrote:
> 
> 
> Brad Templeton wrote:
> > So I'm interested in people's tales of how hard it was to get these things
> > working:
> >         The tv402u or the wintv-pvr-usb
> >         Suspend/hibernate with nvidia card
> 
>  Add
> Option "NvAGP" "1"
> to your xorg.conf, S3 works great.  ~2 secs. to ready state.  This may
> only work with recent drivers.
> 

BTW, on another note, the docs seem to imply the typical situation with
sleeping and wakeup is for all the servers to go to sleep if the system is
idle, and all to wakeup if there is recording to do.

What if the desire is that the master backend is an always on server, and
you want it to wake the slaves when they have recording to do, then have
them shut down when they are idle.   (Ideally in a situation with multiple
slaves only waking the slave that's needed, though for now that's not a big
issue for me as I am using only 1 slave backend and 1 master)  And of course
waking a slave if a frontend wants to talk to it.

Is this a workable configuration?  It seems I might be able to kludge it by
having the shutdown script on the master do nothing while having the one on
the slave shut the system down, though the master might keep thinking it's idle.

This is for a situation where you do expect to have a server that's up all
the time (doing other stuff like email/dns/mysql/etc.) but don't need that for
slaves.