[mythtv-users] Problems with multiple pvr cards

[Brian Walter]

John Drescher wrote:
>> Well, I think I have isolated it to something in the disk subsystem.  I
>> upped the default write buffer in libmythtv, and, lo and behold, the
>> error now only occurs once every 30 minutes...
>>
>>     
> Are you using raid or lvm? I am betting that this is when all four
> (three cards and hard drive controller) devices need dma at the same
> time.
>
> John
>   
LVM (for the time being). 

That sounds reasonable.  So I'm probably 'covering a multitude of sins' 
with this wig :)

I don't suppose there's some way to 'distribute' DMA requests such that 
they don't conflict...?

Brian