[mythtv-users] Any benefit of additional backends?

[Nick Morrott]

On 26/05/07, Jake Vickers <jake at v2gnu.com> wrote:
> I have a P4, 2.4G Celeron backend, with 1G of RAM, a 160G HD, a PVR-150,
> and a PVR-500.
> One of my frontends is a Via MII-10000 with a 60G HD. Would there be any
> benefit in making this unit a combo fe/be unit, or would it give me
> issues with watching TV? Mainly asking out of curiosity rather than any
> need of anything.

Do you do a lot of commflagging or have load/DMA problems when all 3
cards are recording at the same time on your current backend? If not,
I'd recommend keeping your setup as it is. Keeping your capture cards
on a machine that is 'always up' (or has a high uptime) seems more
sensible that scheduling recordings on a slave machine that might not
be online when a recording needs to be made.

I have a slave backend with a capture card used almost entirely for
LiveTV - the master backend takes care of almost 100% of our scheduled
recordings, so it doesn't matter that the slave machine is almost
always turned off (plus I do not use commflagging).

Remember, if it's working, you can probably still break it.

-- 
Nick

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