[mythtv-users] Mythtranscode running on both FE/BE and FE only box !
Steven Sartorius
ssartor at bellatlantic.net
Thu Sep 6 00:21:11 UTC 2007
Hi,
I have two Myth boxes -- one is a fast dual core FE/BE machine and
the other is an old, repurposed Shuttle FE only. The FE/BE box is
the master backend where all recording takes places and the mysql
database lives. The FE box mounts the recordings directory (which is
physically on the FE/BE) via NFS. Two weeks ago I upgraded both
boxes to 20.2 (via svn update on the 20-fixes trunk) and noticed that
some of my mythtranscode jobs were taking a lot longer to run than
they used to. After a little poking around I stumbled on the reason
-- some of the transcoding jobs are being run on the (slow) FE only
machine. This is actually pretty cool -- it looks as if myth is
assigning the transcoding to whichever machine on the network is
least busy (not sure how that's determined). If I had two machines
of equivalent speed I wouldn't care but in my case I'd like all the
transcoding to happen on the fast FE/BE box. Anybody know of a way
to force this behavior? Otherwise I'm at a bit of a loss...
thanks,
Steve
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