[mythtv-users] Schedule mythfilldatabase

[Drew Tomlinson]

Jan Ceuleers wrote:
> Jason,
>
> Jason Gauthier wrote:
>   
>>   I am having some trouble with mythfilldatabase.   Long story short:
>> it's process intensive and disrupts regular TV viewing.
>>     
>
> Have you tried running mythfilldatabase at a low priority? This should 
> resolve your problem if it is caused by CPU contention (rather than IO 
> contention).
>
> To do so invoke mythfilldatabase by prefixing it with the "nice" 
> command, like so:
>
> 	nice mythfilldatabase [arguments to mythfilldatabase]
>
> or if you want to specify a specific niceness level
>
> 	nice -19 mythfilldatabase [args]
Or if problems are from I/O contention, consider adding 'ionice' (man 
ionice) to your command line.  It's helped me.

Cheers,

Drew

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