[mythtv-users] NVP prebuffering pause

[Willy Boyd]

On Feb 8, 2008 2:41 PM, Michael Rice <mikerice1969 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/8/08, Mark Hutchinson <mark at onnow.net> wrote:
> > OK, a bit more info perhaps would assist.
> >
> > It is all local, no NFS, 80 gig SATA drive, I see no real IO wait, 4
> > gigs ram, Core2duo 1.86 ghz ( too slow you think ) and I dont see much
> > load on the cpu.
>

This bit me right after I built my new BE/FE box that should (and is)
more than capable of playing HD.

A couple things that come to mind:  tweaking mysql params to increase
some internal buffers and caches can make the difference (search this
list; if I remember I'll try to post mine later from home).  Along
those same lines, I see you have everything on one drive.  The current
recommendation is to have at least the database on a separate spindle
from the video storage.  Tuning those mysql params can go a long way
to help but you may still need to end up doing this no matter how
beefy the rest of the system is.  It can be something completely
unrelated, these are just the two things that bit me and took me the
longest to try.

- Willy