[mythtv-users] Streaming better than NFS
Michael T. Dean
mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Wed Apr 2 03:24:59 UTC 2008
On 04/01/2008 11:16 PM, Brad DerManouelian wrote:
> Brian Foddy wrote:
>
>> Playing this weekend, I found the AlwaysStreamFiles setting, and even tho my
>> FE has the single filesystem NFS always mounted, I decided to try it. Partly,
>> because I felt it might transfer some cpu load to the BE, and the files are
>> all local on the BE.
>>
>> I found skipping, FF to be much more responsive than with NFS. Overall
>> FE cpu load was also lower. Very little jitter after a FF that used to happen
>> for a few seconds while it cached up the new location.
>>
>
> Sounds like you didn't have your NFS stuff fully tuned. It's typically
> set up for lots of tiny file transfers, not one or two huge files.
Though, there is
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/237546#237546 ;
however, I will admit that there hasn't been as much tuning as could be
done.
Mike
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