[mythtv-users] Low Power Frontends (in anticipation of nvidia's new API)

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Dec 18, 2008, at 8:35 AM, jedi wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:01:32AM -0500, Andrew Barbaccia wrote:
>> Agreed. But some of the operations (like the DB queries when  
>> viewing the
>> channel guide) might be a little intensive for the Atom considering  
>> it's a
>> user interface and *should* be snappy. I'm simply curious of Doug's
>> results.
>
>    If you are worried about the db, throw memory at it. The Myth DB is
> small enough that you can run the whole thing from memory and not  
> worry
> about the speed of the CPU. What hammers the database are keyword  
> search
> based recording rules.

...and running mythfilldatabase, and writing the seektable when you  
are recording 6 programs at the same time, and running --resched when  
you have 8 tuners and probably other things that I haven't thought of  
yet.